Trivy (pronunciation) is a comprehensive and versatile security scanner. Trivy has scanners that look for security issues, and targets where it can find those issues.
Targets (what Trivy can scan):
- Container Image
- Filesystem
- Git Repository (remote)
- Virtual Machine Image
- Kubernetes
- AWS
Scanners (what Trivy can find there):
- OS packages and software dependencies in use (SBOM)
- Known vulnerabilities (CVEs)
- IaC issues and misconfigurations
- Sensitive information and secrets
- Software licenses
Trivy is available in most common distribution methods. The full list of installation options is available in the Installation page, here are a few popular options:
apt-get install trivyyum install trivybrew install aquasecurity/trivy/trivydocker run aquasec/trivy- Download binary from https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/latest/
Trivy is integrated with many popular platforms and applications. The full list of integrations is available in the Ecosystem page. Here are a few popular options:
trivy <target> [--security-checks <scanner1,scanner2>] <subject>Examples:
trivy image python:3.4-alpineResult
trivy-image.mov
trivy fs --security-checks vuln,secret,config myproject/Result
trivy-fs.mov
trivy k8s --report summary clusterResult
- Comprehensive vulnerability detection
- OS packages (Alpine Linux, 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)
- High accuracy, especially Alpine Linux and RHEL/CentOS
- Supply chain security (SBOM support)
- Support CycloneDX
- Support SPDX
- Generating and Scanning SBOM
- Leveraging in-toto attestations
- Integrated with Sigstore
- Misconfiguration detection (IaC scanning)
- Wide variety of security checks are provided out of the box
- Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and more
- User-defined policies using OPA Rego
- Secret detection
- A wide variety of built-in rules are provided out of the box
- User-defined patterns
- Efficient scanning of container images
- Simple
- Available in apt, yum, brew, dockerhub
- No pre-requisites such as a database, system libraries, or eny environmental requirements. The binary runs anywhere.
- The first scan will finish within 10 seconds (depending on your network). Consequent scans will finish instantaneously.
- Fits your workflow
- Great for CI such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.
- Available as extension for IDEs such as vscode, jetbrains, vim
- Available as extension for Docker Desktop, Rancher Desktop
- See Ecosystem section in the documentation.
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Trivy is an Aqua Security open source project.
Learn about our open source work and portfolio here.
Contact us about any matter by opening a GitHub Discussion here