CVE-2025-13425: OSV-SCALIBR has NULL Pointer Dereference

November 20, 2025

A bug in the filesystem traversal fallback path causes fs/diriterate/diriterate.go:Next() to overindex an empty slice when ReadDir returns nil for an empty directory, resulting in a panic (index out of range) and an application crash (denial of service) in OSV-SCALIBR.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-f786-75f3-74xj
github.com/google/osv-scalibr
github.com/google/osv-scalibr/commit/e67c4e198ca099cb7c16957a80f6c5331d90a672
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-13425

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