Container Scanning
June 29, 2026 · View on GitHub
Scan for known CVEs from online databases.
See also the AMI Scanning page.
Open Source
Trivy
See Trivy doc.
Grype
https://anchore.com/opensource/
Clair
Open source static analysis image vulnerability scanner by CoreOS.
Not as good quality, easy to use or reliable in my experience, see this issue
See Clair page.
Proprietary
AWS Inspector
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/inspector/latest/user/what-is-inspector.html
Aqua Security
https://www.aquasec.com/products/aqua-container-security-platform/
Container security - wraps docker socket to control + kill container launches
Twistlock
Tenable.io
Scanner for docker images (company behind Nessus) - one client's tech hub had this. Scans happened 10-40 mins behind async because it's slow
https://docs.tenable.com/vulnerability-management/Content/ContainerSecurity/CSScanner.htm§
CheckMarx
https://checkmarx.com/resource/documents/en/34965-19110-container-scans.html
Container Scanning on Jenkins
From HariSekhon/Jenkins and HariSekhon/Diagrams-as-Code repos:
Ported from various private Knowledge Base pages 2018+