anchore grype up to 0.104.0 improper removal of sensitive information before storage or transfer

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in anchore grype up to 0.104.0. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to improper removal of sensitive information before storage or transfer. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2025-65965. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in anchore grype up to 0.104.0. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper removal of sensitive information before storage or transfer vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-212. The product stores, transfers, or shares a resource that contains sensitive information, but it does not properly remove that information before the product makes the resource available to unauthorized actors. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Grype is a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems. A credential disclosure vulnerability was found in Grype, affecting versions 0.68.0 through 0.104.0. If registry credentials are defined and the output of grype is written using the --file or --output json=<file> option, the registry credentials will be included unsanitized in the output file. This issue has been patched in version 0.104.1. Users running affected versions of grype can work around this vulnerability by redirecting stdout to a file instead of using the --file or --output options.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-65965 since 11/18/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.104.1 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 39f7fa17af2739cafe9b27176d4a68f7c05f21c1 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2025-199596). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• anchore

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• grype

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• 0.104

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• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/anchore/grype/

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