trivy v0.45.1 releases: A Simple and Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner for Containers, Suitable for CI

by do son · Published July 7, 2019 · Updated September 17, 2023

trivy

A Simple and Comprehensive Vulnerability Scanner for Containers, Suitable for CI

Trivy (tri pronounced like trigger, vy pronounced like envy) is a comprehensive security scanner. It is reliable, fast, extremely easy to use, and it works wherever you need it.

Trivy has different scanners that look for different security issues, and different targets where it can find those issues.

Targets:

Container Image
Filesystem
Git repository (remote)
Kubernetes cluster or resource

Scanners:

OS packages and software dependencies in use (SBOM)
Known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
IaC misconfigurations
Sensitive information and secrets

Highlights

Comprehensive vulnerability detection
- OS packages (Alpine Linux, Red Hat Universal Base Image, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CBL-Mariner, Oracle Linux, Debian, Ubuntu, Amazon Linux, openSUSE Leap, SUSE Enterprise Linux, Photon OS and Distroless)
- Language-specific packages (Bundler, Composer, Pipenv, Poetry, npm, yarn, Cargo, NuGet, Maven, and Go)
- High accuracy, especially Alpine Linux and RHEL/CentOS
Supply chain security (SBOM support)
- Support CycloneDX
- Support SPDX
Misconfiguration detection (IaC scanning)
- Wide variety of security checks are provided out of the box
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and more
- User-defined policies using OPA Rego
Secret detection
- A wide variety of built-in rules are provided out of the box
- User-defined patterns
- Efficient scanning of container images
Simple
- Available in apt, yum, brew, dockerhub
- No pre-requisites such as a database, system libraries, or eny environmental requirements. The binary runs anywhere.
- The first scan will finish within 10 seconds (depending on your network). Consequent scans will finish instantaneously.
Fits your workflow
- Great for CI such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.
- Available as extension for IDEs such as vscode, jetbrains, vim
- Available as extension for Docker Desktop, Rancher Desktop
- See integrations section in the documentation.