diff --git a/bincapz.go b/bincapz.go
index 2132367c9..5e2b3d31d 100644
--- a/bincapz.go
+++ b/bincapz.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ func main() {
 	allFlag := flag.Bool("all", false, "Ignore nothing, show all")
 	statsFlag := flag.Bool("stats", false, "show statistics about the scan")
 	verboseFlag := flag.Bool("verbose", false, "emit verbose logging messages to stderr")
+	ociFlag := flag.Bool("oci", false, "scan an OCI image")
 
 	flag.Parse()
 	args := flag.Args()
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@ func main() {
 		MinFileScore:     *minFileLevelFlag,
 		IncludeDataFiles: includeDataFiles,
 		Renderer:         renderer,
+		OCI:              *ociFlag,
 		Stats:            stats,
 	}
 
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 230fd7282..dc944f388 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ require (
 	github.com/agext/levenshtein v1.2.3
 	github.com/chainguard-dev/clog v1.3.1
 	github.com/google/go-cmp v0.6.0
+	github.com/google/go-containerregistry v0.19.1
 	github.com/hillu/go-yara/v4 v4.3.2
 	github.com/liamg/magic v0.0.1
 	github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter v0.0.5
@@ -14,6 +15,21 @@ require (
 )
 
 require (
-	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.9 // indirect
+	github.com/containerd/stargz-snapshotter/estargz v0.14.3 // indirect
+	github.com/docker/cli v24.0.0+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/docker/distribution v2.8.2+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/docker/docker v24.0.0+incompatible // indirect
+	github.com/docker/docker-credential-helpers v0.7.0 // indirect
+	github.com/klauspost/compress v1.16.5 // indirect
+	github.com/kr/pretty v0.2.1 // indirect
+	github.com/mattn/go-runewidth v0.0.15 // indirect
+	github.com/mitchellh/go-homedir v1.1.0 // indirect
+	github.com/opencontainers/go-digest v1.0.0 // indirect
+	github.com/opencontainers/image-spec v1.1.0-rc3 // indirect
+	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1 // indirect
+	github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0 // indirect
+	github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.9.1 // indirect
+	github.com/vbatts/tar-split v0.11.3 // indirect
+	golang.org/x/sync v0.2.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.19.0 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 1fcb5f9d2..c4de074aa 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -1,32 +1,86 @@
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diff --git a/pkg/action/action.go b/pkg/action/action.go
index 7dc217107..2d76ce0ff 100644
--- a/pkg/action/action.go
+++ b/pkg/action/action.go
@@ -20,5 +20,6 @@ type Config struct {
 	IncludeDataFiles bool
 	Renderer         render.Renderer
 	Output           io.Writer
+	OCI              bool
 	Stats            bool
 }
diff --git a/pkg/action/oci.go b/pkg/action/oci.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4289e7fd5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkg/action/oci.go
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+package action
+
+import (
+	"archive/tar"
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+
+	"github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/crane"
+	v1 "github.com/google/go-containerregistry/pkg/v1"
+)
+
+const maxBytes = 1 << 26
+
+func prepare(d string) (string, *os.File, error) {
+	tmpDir, err := os.MkdirTemp("", fmt.Sprintf("bincapz-%s", filepath.Base(d)))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create temp dir: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	tmpFile, err := os.CreateTemp(tmpDir, fmt.Sprintf("%s.tar", filepath.Base(d)))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to create temp file: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	var image v1.Image
+	if image, err = crane.Pull(d, crane.WithContext(context.Background())); err != nil {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to pull image: %w", err)
+	}
+	if err := crane.Export(image, tmpFile); err != nil {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to export image: %w", err)
+	}
+	_, err = tmpFile.Seek(0, io.SeekStart)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to seek to start of temp file: %w", err)
+	}
+	return tmpDir, tmpFile, nil
+}
+
+func extract(d string, f *os.File) error {
+	tr := tar.NewReader(f)
+	for {
+		header, err := tr.Next()
+		if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+			break
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to read tar header: %w", err)
+		}
+		clean := filepath.Clean(header.Name)
+		if filepath.IsAbs(clean) || strings.HasPrefix(clean, "..") {
+			return fmt.Errorf("invalid file path: %s", header.Name)
+		}
+		target := filepath.Join(d, clean)
+		if header.FileInfo().IsDir() {
+			if err := os.MkdirAll(target, os.FileMode(header.Mode)); err != nil {
+				return fmt.Errorf("failed to create directory: %w", err)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		f, err := os.OpenFile(target, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREATE|os.O_TRUNC, os.FileMode(header.Mode))
+		if err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create file: %w", err)
+		}
+		if _, err := io.Copy(f, io.LimitReader(tr, maxBytes)); err != nil {
+			f.Close()
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to copy file: %w", err)
+		}
+		if err := f.Close(); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to close file: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// return a directory with the extracted image directories/files in it.
+func oci(path string) (string, error) {
+	tmpDir, tmpFile, err := prepare(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to prepare image: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	err = extract(tmpDir, tmpFile)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("failed to extract image: %w", err)
+	}
+
+	return tmpDir, nil
+}
diff --git a/pkg/action/scan.go b/pkg/action/scan.go
index d5dccc8aa..122bbf069 100644
--- a/pkg/action/scan.go
+++ b/pkg/action/scan.go
@@ -89,6 +89,13 @@ func recursiveScan(ctx context.Context, c Config) (*bincapz.Report, error) {
 	logger.Infof("%d rules loaded", len(yrs.GetRules()))
 
 	for _, sp := range c.ScanPaths {
+		if c.OCI {
+			var err error
+			sp, err = oci(sp)
+			if err != nil {
+				return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to prepare OCI image for scanning: %w", err)
+			}
+		}
 		rp, err := findFilesRecursively(ctx, sp)
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, fmt.Errorf("find files: %w", err)
@@ -113,6 +120,11 @@ func recursiveScan(ctx context.Context, c Config) (*bincapz.Report, error) {
 			}
 			r.Files[p] = *fr
 		}
+		if c.OCI {
+			if err := os.RemoveAll(sp); err != nil {
+				logger.Errorf("remove %s: %v", sp, err)
+			}
+		}
 	}
 
 	return r, nil