Overview

Trivy detects three types of security issues:

• Vulnerabilities
  • OS packages (Alpine, 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)
• Misconfigurations
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • CloudFormation
  • more coming soon
• Secrets
  • AWS access key
  • GCP service account
  • GitHub personal access token
  • etc.

Trivy can scan three different artifacts:

• Container Images
• Filesystem
• Git Repositories

It is designed to be used in CI. Before pushing to a container registry or deploying your application, you can scan your local container image and other artifacts easily. See Integrations for details.