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

Trivyoras >= v0.13.0oras < v0.13.0

TRIVY_TEMP_DIR=$(mktemp -d)
trivy --cache-dir $TRIVY_TEMP_DIR image --download-db-only
tar -cf ./db.tar.gz -C $TRIVY_TEMP_DIR/db metadata.json trivy.db
rm -rf $TRIVY_TEMP_DIR

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

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 -a ghcr.io/aquasecurity/trivy-db:2

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