CVE-2026-33634: Aquasecurity Trivy Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Aquasecurity Trivy contains an embedded malicious code vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain access to everything in the CI/CD environment, including all tokens, SSH keys, cloud credentials, database passwords, and any sensitive configuration in memory.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Aquasecurity Trivy contains an embedded malicious code vulnerability that could allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive information in the CI/CD environment.
- Who is affected
- Users of Aquasecurity Trivy.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Update to the latest version of Aquasecurity Trivy.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33634
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2026-33634Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 99% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-33634 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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