CloudFormation

Trivy supports the scanners listed in the table below.

Scanner	Supported
Misconfiguration	✓
Secret	✓

It supports the following formats.

Format	Supported
JSON	✓
YAML	✓

Misconfiguration

Trivy recursively searches directories and scans all found CloudFormation files. It evaluates properties, functions, and other elements within CloudFormation files to detect misconfigurations.

Value Overrides

You can provide cf-params with path to CloudFormation Parameters file to Trivy to scan your CloudFormation code with parameters.

trivy conf --cf-params params.json ./infrastructure/cf

You can check a CloudFormation Parameters Example

Secret

The secret scan is performed on plain text files, with no special treatment for CloudFormation.