CVE-2026-33634 — Aquasecurity Trivy Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability

Overview

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.

Vulnerability details

CVE ID

CVE-2026-33634

Vulnerability

Aquasecurity Trivy Embedded Malicious Code Vulnerability

Vendor

Aquasecurity

Affected products

Aquasecurity: Trivy

Severity

HIGH

Exploitation status

Actively exploited in the wild (CISA KEV)

EPSS score

60.4% probability of exploitation in 30 days · 99th percentile

Published

2026-03-26

Remediation guidance

CVE-2026-33634 is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog — U.S. federal civilian agencies are required to remediate it under Binding Operational Directive 22-01. Treat it as a priority for every environment.

Apply the vendor's official security update for Aquasecurity the affected product as soon as possible. Where a patch is unavailable, apply vendor mitigations or isolate/segment exposed systems.

FIRST EPSS estimates a 60.4% probability that CVE-2026-33634 will be exploited within the next 30 days (99th percentile of all CVEs) — useful for risk-based patch sequencing.

Hunt for indicators of compromise tied to this vulnerability and confirm logging/EDR coverage on affected assets.

Authoritative references

• NVD — National Vulnerability Database
• MITRE CVE Record
• CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
• FIRST EPSS — Exploit Prediction Scoring