diff --git a/sbom/test_update_component_sbom.py b/sbom/test_update_component_sbom.py
index 2409437..3911a3c 100644
--- a/sbom/test_update_component_sbom.py
+++ b/sbom/test_update_component_sbom.py
@@ -12,20 +12,20 @@
 
 class TestUpdateComponentSBOM(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_get_component_to_purls_map_single_arch(self) -> None:
-        release_note_images = [
+        images = [
             {"component": "comp1", "purl": "purl1"},
             {"component": "comp1", "purl": "purl2"},
             {"component": "comp2", "purl": "purl3"},
         ]
 
-        result = get_component_to_purls_map(release_note_images)
+        result = get_component_to_purls_map(images)
         assert result == {
             "comp1": ["purl1", "purl2"],
             "comp2": ["purl3"],
         }
 
     def test_get_component_to_purls_map_multi_arch(self) -> None:
-        release_note_images = [
+        images = [
             {
                 "component": "comp1",
                 "purl": "pkg:oci/bar@sha256%3Aabcde?arch=amd64&repository_url=registry.io/foo",
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def test_get_component_to_purls_map_multi_arch(self) -> None:
             },
         ]
 
-        result = get_component_to_purls_map(release_note_images)
+        result = get_component_to_purls_map(images)
         assert result == {
             "comp1": ["pkg:oci/bar@sha256%3Afoosha1?repository_url=registry.io/foo"],
             "comp1_amd64": [
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ def test_update_sboms_with_cyclonedex_format(
         # defined in the mock_open
         test_cyclonedx_sbom = {
             "bomFormat": "CycloneDX",
-            "releaseNotes": {"content": {"images": "foo"}},
+            "images": "foo",
         }
 
         with patch(
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ def test_update_sboms_with_spdx_format(
     ) -> None:
         # combining the content of data.json and sbom, since there can only be one read_data
         # defined in the mock_open
-        test_spdx_sbom = {"spdxVersion": "2.3", "releaseNotes": {"content": {"images": "foo"}}}
+        test_spdx_sbom = {"spdxVersion": "2.3", "images": "foo"}
 
         with patch(
             "builtins.open", mock_open(read_data=json.dumps(test_spdx_sbom))
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ def test_update_sboms_with_wrong_format(
         # defined in the mock_open
         test_spdx_sbom = {
             "notSbom": "NoSbomVersion",
-            "releaseNotes": {"content": {"images": "foo"}},
+            "images": "foo",
         }
 
         with patch(
diff --git a/sbom/update_component_sbom.py b/sbom/update_component_sbom.py
index 71d507c..8df4149 100755
--- a/sbom/update_component_sbom.py
+++ b/sbom/update_component_sbom.py
@@ -140,9 +140,7 @@ def update_sboms(data_path: str, input_path: str, output_path: str) -> None:
     with open(data_path, "r") as data_file:
         data = json.load(data_file)
 
-    component_to_purls_map = get_component_to_purls_map(
-        data["releaseNotes"]["content"].get("images", [])
-    )
+    component_to_purls_map = get_component_to_purls_map(data.get("images", []))
     # get all json files in input dir
     input_jsons = glob.glob(os.path.join(input_path, "*.json"))
     # loop through files