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Language-specific Packages

Trivy automatically detects the following files and scans vulnerabilities in the application dependencies.

Supported languages

Language File Image7 Rootfs8 Filesystem9 Repository10 Dev dependencies Dependency location11
Ruby Gemfile.lock - - ✅ ✅ included -
gemspec ✅ ✅ - - included -
Python Pipfile.lock - - ✅ ✅ excluded ✅
poetry.lock - - ✅ ✅ excluded -
requirements.txt - - ✅ ✅ included -
egg package1 ✅ ✅ - - excluded -
wheel package2 ✅ ✅ - - excluded -
PHP composer.lock ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ excluded ✅
Node.js package-lock.json - - ✅ ✅ excluded ✅
yarn.lock - - ✅ ✅ included ✅
pnpm-lock.yaml - - ✅ ✅ excluded -
package.json ✅ ✅ - - excluded -
.NET packages.lock.json ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ included ✅
packages.config ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ excluded -
.deps.json ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ excluded ✅
Java JAR/WAR/PAR/EAR3 ✅ ✅ - - included -
pom.xml4 - - ✅ ✅ excluded -
*gradle.lockfile - - ✅ ✅ excluded -
Go Binaries built by Go5 ✅ ✅ - - excluded -
go.mod6 - - ✅ ✅ included -
Rust Cargo.lock ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ excluded ✅
Binaries built with cargo-auditable ✅ ✅ - - excluded -
C/C++ conan.lock12 - - ✅ ✅ excluded -
Elixir mix.lock12 - - ✅ ✅ excluded ✅
Dart pubspec.lock ✅ ✅ - - included -

The path of these files does not matter.

Example: Dockerfile

Data Sources

Language Source Commercial Use Delay1
PHP PHP Security Advisories Database ✅ -
GitHub Advisory Database (Composer) ✅ -
Python GitHub Advisory Database (pip) ✅ -
Open Source Vulnerabilities (PyPI) ✅ -
Ruby Ruby Advisory Database ✅ -
GitHub Advisory Database (RubyGems) ✅ -
Node.js Ecosystem Security Working Group ✅ -
GitHub Advisory Database (npm) ✅ -
Java GitLab Advisories Community ✅ 1 month
GitHub Advisory Database (Maven) ✅ -
Go GitLab Advisories Community ✅ 1 month
The Go Vulnerability Database ✅ -
Rust Open Source Vulnerabilities (crates.io) ✅ -
.NET GitHub Advisory Database (NuGet) ✅ -
C/C++ GitLab Advisories Community ✅ 1 month
Dart GitHub Advisory Database (Pub) ✅ -
Elixir GitHub Advisory Database (Erlang) ✅

  1. Intentional delay between vulnerability disclosure and registration in the DB ↩↩

  2. .dist-info/META-DATA ↩

  3. *.jar, *.war, *.par and *.ear ↩

  4. It requires Internet access when the POM doesn't exist in your local repository ↩

  5. UPX-compressed binaries don't work ↩

  6. If smaller than go 1.17, go.sum is also required ↩

  7. ✅ means "enabled" and - means "disabled" in the image scanning ↩

  8. ✅ means "enabled" and - means "disabled" in the rootfs scanning ↩

  9. ✅ means "enabled" and - means "disabled" in the filesystem scanning ↩

  10. ✅ means "enabled" and - means "disabled" in the git repository scanning ↩

  11. ✅ means that Trivy detects line numbers where each dependency is declared in the scanned file. Only supported in json and sarif formats. SARIF uses startline == 1 and endline == 1 for unsupported file types ↩

  12. To scan a filename other than the default filename use file-patterns ↩↩

  13. When you scan Cargo.lock and Cargo.toml together. See about it here. ↩