Before releasing applications to production, you need to take very strong security measures and protocols to help protect your assets.
Today we are introducing Trivy.
Trivy is a simple and comprehensive vulnerability scanner for containers and other artifacts.
It helps detect vulnerabilities in operating system packages (Alpine, RHEL, CentOS , etc.) and application dependencies (Bundler, Composer, npm, yarn, etc.).
You can easily scan your local container image and other artifacts before submitting to the container register or deploying your application, giving you confidence that everything is fine with your application.
Features of Trivy
- Discovery of complex vulnerabilities
- Simplicity – Specify only the image name or the artifact name.
- Fast – The first scan will complete within 10 seconds (depending on your network). Follow-up scan will complete in seconds
- DevSecOps – Suitable for CIs like Travis CI, CircleCI, Jenkins, GitLab CI, etc.
- Support for multiple formats – including: container image, local file system, remote git repository.
- Easy installation – it is possible to install apt-get, yum install and brew without prerequisites such as installing the database, libraries, etc.
How to use the Trivy image scanner
Trivy can be installed on a number of Linux distributions as well as macOS.
We’ll cover installing Trivy on CentOS, Ubuntu , Debian , Arch, and MacOS.
Installing Trivy on CentOS
You have two options if you want to install Trivy on your CentOS.
You can use the Trivy repository or install it directly from the RPM.
To install from the repository, add the following repo and then proceed with the Trivy installation.
echo -e "n[trivy]nname=Trivy repositorynbaseurl=https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy-repo/rpm/releases/$releasever/$basearch/ngpgcheck=0nenabled=1" | sudo tee -a /etc/yum.repos.d/kubernetes.repo
After adding the Trivy repository, update the server and install the trivy package as follows:
sudo yum -y update
sudo yum -y install trivy
To install trivy from RPM, you need to get the latest version of Trivy and then run the following commands:
$ rpm -ivh https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/download/v0.12.0/trivy_0.12.0_Linux-64bit.rpm
Installing Trivy on Debian | Ubuntu
Similar to installing Trivy on CentOS, you also have two options that you can use to install it on your Debian | Ubuntu.
You can use the Trivy repository or install it directly from the DEB source.
To install from the repository, add the following repo, then proceed to install Trivy.
sudo apt-get install wget apt-transport-https gnupg lsb-release
wget -qO - https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy-repo/deb/public.key | sudo apt-key add -
echo deb https://aquasecurity.github.io/trivy-repo/deb $(lsb_release -sc) main | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/trivy.list
After adding the Trivy repository, update the server and install the trivy package as follows:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install trivy
Alternatively, if you are a fan of the deb source code, you can install Trivy using its DEB source code. To install Trivy this way, you will need to get the latest version of Trivy and then run the following commands:
sudo apt-get install rpm
wget <deb-package-url>
sudo apt install ./<deb-package>.deb
Installing Trivy on Arch Linux | Manjaro
Well, for all dedicated Arch fans, you can easily install Trivy on your computer using pikaur or yay AUR as shown below.
pikaur -Sy trivy-bin
Or you can use the yay AUR helper like so:
yay -Sy trivy-bin
Yay – Another reliable AUR helper written in GO
Installing Trivy on macOS
You can install this great tool on MacOS through Homebrew by running the command:
brew install aquasecurity/trivy/trivy
Trivy in action – how to use Trivy
With Trivy installed, we’re ready to get started right away.
Trivy covers many use cases, and we’ll cover some of them in this guide.
File system scan
Trivy can scan a file system (for example, a host machine, a virtual machine image, or the file system of an unpacked container image).
During the scan, it will look for vulnerabilities based on lock files such as Gemfile.lock and package-lock.json.
The syntax looks like this:
$ trivy fs /home/vagrant
2020-11-09T10:35:41.656Z WARN OS is not detected and vulnerabilities in OS packages are not detected.
2020-11-09T10:35:41.656Z INFO Detecting ruby vulnerabilities...
2020-11-09T10:35:41.656Z INFO Detecting nodejs vulnerabilities...
octant/site/Gemfile.lock
========================
Total: 0 (UNKNOWN: 0, LOW: 0, MEDIUM: 0, HIGH: 0, CRITICAL: 0)
octant/web/package-lock.json
============================
Total: 0 (UNKNOWN: 0, LOW: 0, MEDIUM: 0, HIGH: 0, CRITICAL: 0)
Scanning your Git repository
Luckily, you can scan a remote git repository with this simple yet powerful tool.
It should be noted, however, that only public repositories are supported here.
Scan your Git repository using the repo switcher like this:
$ trivy repo https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy
2020-11-09T07:13:25.265Z INFO Need to update DB
2020-11-09T07:13:25.265Z INFO Downloading DB...
19.13 MiB / 19.13 MiB [-----------------------------------------------------------] 100.00% 512.75 KiB p/s 38sEnumerating objects: 2338, done.
Counting objects: 100% (2338/2338), done.
Compressing objects: 100% (1260/1260), done.
Total 2338 (delta 1229), reused 1943 (delta 933), pack-reused 0
2020-11-09T07:40:29.758Z WARN OS is not detected and vulnerabilities in OS packages are not detected.
Scanning images
After developing and building your application into an image (Docker or so), you have the opportunity to spot any security issue you might have missed.
Just provide the image name and tag along with your simple command as shown below.
$ docker images
REPOSITORY TAG IMAGE ID CREATED SIZE
nginx latest c39a868aad02 3 days ago 133MB
$ trivy image nginx
You should see a long and detailed report in your terminal output.
Inserting Trivy into Dockerfile
Another cool feature of this tool is that you can include it in your Dockerfile and it will scan everything as the image is built.
We’ll be using the Nginx image to demonstrate here as follows:
$ vim Dockerfile
FROM alpine:3.7
RUN apk add curl
&& curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aquasecurity/trivy/master/contrib/install.sh | sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin
&& trivy filesystem --exit-code 1 --no-progress /
Then build your image with output similar to the one shown below:
$ docker build -t scanned-image .
Sending build context to Docker daemon 8.704 kB
Step 1/2 : FROM alpine:3.7
Trying to pull repository docker.io/library/alpine ...
3.7: Pulling from docker.io/library/alpine
5d20c808ce19: Pull complete
Digest: sha256:8421d9a84432575381bfabd248f1eb56f3aa21d9d7cd2511583c68c9b7511d10
Status: Downloaded newer image for docker.io/alpine:3.7
---> 6d1ef012b567
Step 2/2 : RUN apk add curl && curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aquasecurity/trivy/master/contrib/install.sh | sh -s
-- -b /usr/local/bin && trivy filesystem --exit-code 1 --no-progress /
---> Running in 445558539f6f
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
fetch https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.7/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz
(1/4) Installing ca-certificates (20190108-r0)
(2/4) Installing libssh2 (1.9.0-r1)
(3/4) Installing libcurl (7.61.1-r3)
(4/4) Installing curl (7.61.1-r3)
Executing busybox-1.27.2-r11.trigger
Executing ca-certificates-20190108-r0.trigger
OK: 6 MiB in 17 packages
aquasecurity/trivy info checking GitHub for latest tag
aquasecurity/trivy info found version: 0.12.0 for v0.12.0/Linux/64bit
aquasecurity/trivy info installed /usr/local/bin/trivy
2020-11-09T10:13:02.597Z INFO Need to update DB
2020-11-09T10:13:02.597Z INFO Downloading DB...
2020-11-09T10:13:27.545Z INFO Detecting Alpine vulnerabilities...
2020-11-09T10:13:27.547Z WARN This OS version is no longer supported by the distribution: alpine 3.7.3
2020-11-09T10:13:27.547Z WARN The vulnerability detection may be insufficient because security updates are not provided
445558539f6f (alpine 3.7.3)
===========================
Total: 2 (UNKNOWN: 0, LOW: 0, MEDIUM: 0, HIGH: 0, CRITICAL: 2)
+------------+------------------+----------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+
| LIBRARY | VULNERABILITY ID | SEVERITY | INSTALLED VERSION | FIXED VERSION | TITLE |
+------------+------------------+----------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+
| musl | CVE-2019-14697 | CRITICAL | 1.1.18-r3 | 1.1.18-r4 | musl libc through 1.1.23 |
| | | | | | has an x87 floating-point |
| | | | | | stack adjustment imbalance, |
| | | | | | related... |
+------------+ + + + + +
| musl-utils | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
| | | | | | |
+------------+------------------+----------+-------------------+-----
Filter vulnerabilities by severity
If you have special needs and want the generated report to be filtered so that you can see HIGH, CRITICAL and other fields, Trivy will do it for you right out of the box.
Just run a command similar to the following:
$ trivy image --severity HIGH,CRITICAL nginx:latest
Scan your project with a lock file
If you have a Python project, chances are high it has a lock file.
Therefore, you can scan a project like this with trivy like this:
$ trivy fs ~/src/github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-ci-test
Scanning a container inside a container
To add even more sugar to your sweet tea, it’s worth mentioning that Trivy can scan your running container from within that container.
This is how it can be achieved, and note that you do not need to install Trivy on the host machine.
$ docker run --rm -it nginx
&& curl -sfL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aquasecurity/trivy/master/contrib/install.sh | sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin
&& trivy fs /
Scanning using Harbor
We looked at this tool earlier:
☸️ Installing Harbor – Image Registry in Kubernetes / OpenShift using Helm
? How to use Harbor to scan Docker images for vulnerabilities
Trivy is a built-in scanner along with Clair.
You can scan directly through your browser:
