Air-Gapped Environment

Trivy can be used in air-gapped environments. Note that an allowlist is here.

Air-Gapped Environment for vulnerabilities

Download the vulnerability database

At first, you need to download the vulnerability database for use in air-gapped environments. Please follow oras installation instruction.

Download db.tar.gz:

$ oras pull ghcr.io/aquasecurity/trivy-db:2 -a

Transfer the DB file into the air-gapped environment

The way of transfer depends on the environment.

$ rsync -av -e ssh /path/to/db.tar.gz [user]@[host]:dst

Put the DB file in Trivy's cache directory

You have to know where to put the DB file. The following command shows the default cache directory.

$ ssh user@host
$ trivy -h | grep cache
   --cache-dir value  cache directory (default: "/home/myuser/.cache/trivy") [$TRIVY_CACHE_DIR]

Put the DB file in the cache directory + /db.

$ mkdir -p /home/myuser/.cache/trivy/db
$ cd /home/myuser/.cache/trivy/db
$ tar xvf /path/to/db.tar.gz -C /home/myuser/.cache/trivy/db
x trivy.db
x metadata.json
$ rm /path/to/db.tar.gz

In an air-gapped environment it is your responsibility to update the Trivy database on a regular basis, so that the scanner can detect recently-identified vulnerabilities.

Run Trivy with --skip-update and --offline-scan option

In an air-gapped environment, specify --skip-update so that Trivy doesn't attempt to download the latest database file. In addition, if you want to scan Java dependencies such as JAR and pom.xml, you need to specify --offline-scan since Trivy tries to issue API requests for scanning Java applications by default.

$ trivy image --skip-update --offline-scan alpine:3.12

Air-Gapped Environment for misconfigurations

No special measures are required to detect misconfigurations in an air-gapped environment.

Run Trivy with --skip-policy-update option

In an air-gapped environment, specify --skip-policy-update so that Trivy doesn't attempt to download the latest misconfiguration policies.

$ trivy conf --skip-policy-update /path/to/conf