grype is a vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Scan the contents of a container image or filesystem to find known vulnerabilities.
- Find vulnerabilities for major operating system packages:
- Alpine.
- Amazon Linux.
- BusyBox.
- CentOS.
- CBL-Mariner.
- Debian.
- Distroless.
- Oracle Linux.
- Red Hat (RHEL).
- Ubuntu.
- Wolfi.
- Find vulnerabilities for language-specific packages:
- Ruby (Gems).
- Java (JAR, WAR, EAR, JPI, HPI).
- JavaScript (NPM, Yarn).
- Python (Egg, Wheel, Poetry, requirements.txt/setup.py files).
- Dotnet (deps.json).
- Golang (go.mod).
- PHP (Composer).
- Rust (Cargo).
- Supports Docker, OCI and Singularity image formats.
- OpenVEX support for filtering and augmenting scanning results.
Website: github.com/anchore/grype
Support:
Developer: Anchore, Inc.
License: Apache License 2.0
grype is written in Go. Learn Go with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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