Vulnerability Scanner (Trivy)

The registry includes Trivy, a scanner that analyzes your images for known vulnerabilities (CVE) in system packages and application dependencies.

What is it for?

An image, even an official one, may include libraries with security flaws. The scan allows you to identify these flaws, assess their severity, and determine if a patch exists.

Run a manual scan

You must have at least Maintainer permissions on the project.

1. Open your project > Repositories tab, then select a repository
2. Check the artifacts (tags) to analyze
3. Click SCAN

The scan runs in the background; the status progresses from Queued to Done.

Automatic scan on push

The project can be configured to automatically scan each image as soon as it is pushed.

1. Open your project > Configuration tab
2. Check Automatically scan images on push
3. Save

Reading the results

The Vulnerabilities column displays a color-coded summary by severity level:

Color	Meaning
Green	No vulnerabilities detected
Blue	Low severity vulnerabilities
Yellow	Medium severity vulnerabilities
Orange	High severity vulnerabilities
Red	Critical severity vulnerabilities
Gray	Unknown status (image not scanned)

The summary also indicates the total number of vulnerabilities and how many are fixable. You can hover over the icon to see the breakdown by severity level.

Detailed report

Click on the artifact’s digest to open the full report. For each vulnerability, you will find:

• the CVE identifier (with a link to its description),
• the affected package and its installed version,
• the severity level,
• the fixed version when a patch exists.

You can sort and filter the list by column, and rerun a scan directly from the report.

What to do with the results?

Reducing vulnerabilities in your images

• Update your base image (docker pull the latest version, then rebuild).
• Prefer minimal base images (alpine, -slim, distroless): fewer packages, smaller attack surface.
• Update application dependencies flagged as fixable.
• Rebuild and repush your images regularly to incorporate patches.

CVE database updates

Trivy automatically updates its vulnerability database. A rescanned tag may reveal new vulnerabilities discovered in the meantime.