What is CVE-2026-33481?

CVE-2026-33481 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Anchore Syft, classified under CWE-460. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-03-26.

How severe is CVE-2026-33481?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Anchore Syft

CVE-2026-33481

Syft is a a CLI tool and Go library for generating a Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) from container images and filesystems. Syft versions before v1.42.3 would not properly cleanup temporary storage if the temporary storage was exhausted…

EPSS: 0.000 (4.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Anchore Syft — versions < 1.42.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-460

References

https://github.com/anchore/syft/security/advisories/GHSA-rjcw-vg7j-m9rc (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/anchore/stereoscope/pull/537 (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/anchore/syft/pull/4629 (x_refsource_MISC)
https://github.com/anchore/syft/pull/4668 (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-33481?: CVE-2026-33481 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Anchore Syft, classified under CWE-460. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2026-03-26.
How severe is CVE-2026-33481?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.