Trivy Action

GitHub Action for Trivy

Usage
Customizing
- Inputs

Usage

Scan CI Pipeline

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Build an image from Dockerfile
        run: |
          docker build -t docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }} .
      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          image-ref: 'docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }}'
          format: 'table'
          exit-code: '1'
          ignore-unfixed: true
          vuln-type: 'os,library'
          severity: 'CRITICAL,HIGH'

Scan CI Pipeline (w/ Trivy Config)

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
    - name: Checkout code
      uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner in fs mode
      uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
      with:
        scan-type: 'fs'
        scan-ref: '.'
        trivy-config: trivy.yaml

In this case trivy.yaml is a YAML configuration that is checked in as part of the repo. Detailed information is available on the Trivy website but an example is as follows:

format: json
exit-code: 1
severity: CRITICAL

It is possible to define all options in the trivy.yaml file. Specifying individual options via the action are left for backward compatibility purposes. Defining the following is required as they cannot be defined with the config file:

scan-ref: If using fs, repo scans.
image-ref: If using image scan.
scan-type: To define the scan type, e.g. image, fs, repo, etc.

Order of prerference for options

Trivy uses Viper which has a defined precedence order for options. The order is as follows:

GitHub Action flag
Environment variable
Config file
Default

Scanning a Tarball

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
    - name: Checkout code
      uses: actions/checkout@v3

    - name: Generate tarball from image
      run: |
        docker pull <your-docker-image>
        docker save -o vuln-image.tar <your-docker-image>
        
    - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner in tarball mode
      uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
      with:
        input: /github/workspace/vuln-image.tar
        severity: 'CRITICAL,HIGH'

Using Trivy with GitHub Code Scanning

If you have GitHub code scanning available you can use Trivy as a scanning tool as follows:

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Build an image from Dockerfile
        run: |
          docker build -t docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }} .

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          image-ref: 'docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }}'
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

You can find a more in-depth example here: https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-sarif-demo/blob/master/.github/workflows/scan.yml

If you would like to upload SARIF results to GitHub Code scanning even upon a non zero exit code from Trivy Scan, you can add the following to your upload step:

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Build an image from Dockerfile
        run: |
          docker build -t docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }} .

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          image-ref: 'docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }}'
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        if: always()
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

See this for more details: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/expressions#always

Using Trivy to scan your Git repo

It's also possible to scan your git repos with Trivy's built-in repo scan. This can be handy if you want to run Trivy as a build time check on each PR that gets opened in your repo. This helps you identify potential vulnerablites that might get introduced with each PR.

If you have GitHub code scanning available you can use Trivy as a scanning tool as follows:

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner in repo mode
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          scan-type: 'fs'
          ignore-unfixed: true
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
          severity: 'CRITICAL'

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

Using Trivy to scan your rootfs directories

It's also possible to scan your rootfs directories with Trivy's built-in rootfs scan. This can be handy if you want to run Trivy as a build time check on each PR that gets opened in your repo. This helps you identify potential vulnerablites that might get introduced with each PR.

If you have GitHub code scanning available you can use Trivy as a scanning tool as follows:

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner with rootfs command
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          scan-type: 'rootfs'
          scan-ref: 'rootfs-example-binary'
          ignore-unfixed: true
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
          severity: 'CRITICAL'

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

Using Trivy to scan Infrastructure as Code

It's also possible to scan your IaC repos with Trivy's built-in repo scan. This can be handy if you want to run Trivy as a build time check on each PR that gets opened in your repo. This helps you identify potential vulnerablites that might get introduced with each PR.

If you have GitHub code scanning available you can use Trivy as a scanning tool as follows:

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner in IaC mode
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          scan-type: 'config'
          hide-progress: false
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
          exit-code: '1'
          ignore-unfixed: true
          severity: 'CRITICAL,HIGH'

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

Using Trivy to generate SBOM

It's possible for Trivy to generate an SBOM of your dependencies and submit them to a consumer like GitHub Dependency Graph.

The sending of an SBOM to GitHub feature is only available if you currently have GitHub Dependency Graph enabled in your repo.

In order to send results to GitHub Dependency Graph, you will need to create a GitHub PAT or use the GitHub installation access token (also known as GITHUB_TOKEN):

---
name: Pull Request
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master

## GITHUB_TOKEN authentication, add only if you're not going to use a PAT
permissions:
  contents: write

jobs:
  build:
    name: Checks
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Trivy in GitHub SBOM mode and submit results to Dependency Graph
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          scan-type: 'fs'
          format: 'github'
          output: 'dependency-results.sbom.json'
          image-ref: '.'
          github-pat: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # or ${{ secrets.github_pat_name }} if you're using a PAT

Using Trivy to scan your private registry

It's also possible to scan your private registry with Trivy's built-in image scan. All you have to do is set ENV vars.

Docker Hub registry

Docker Hub needs TRIVY_USERNAME and TRIVY_PASSWORD. You don't need to set ENV vars when downloading from a public repository.

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          image-ref: 'docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }}'
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
        env:
          TRIVY_USERNAME: Username
          TRIVY_PASSWORD: Password

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

Trivy uses AWS SDK. You don't need to install aws CLI tool. You can use AWS CLI's ENV Vars.

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          image-ref: 'aws_account_id.dkr.ecr.region.amazonaws.com/imageName:${{ github.sha }}'
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
        env:
          AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: key_id
          AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY: access_key
          AWS_DEFAULT_REGION: us-west-2

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

GCR (Google Container Registry)

Trivy uses Google Cloud SDK. You don't need to install gcloud command.

If you want to use target project's repository, you can set it via GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL.

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          image-ref: 'docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }}'
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
        env:
          GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIAL: /path/to/credential.json

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

Self-Hosted

BasicAuth server needs TRIVY_USERNAME and TRIVY_PASSWORD. if you want to use 80 port, use NonSSL TRIVY_NON_SSL=true

name: build
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
  pull_request:
jobs:
  build:
    name: Build
    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
    steps:
      - name: Checkout code
        uses: actions/checkout@v3

      - name: Run Trivy vulnerability scanner
        uses: aquasecurity/trivy-action@master
        with:
          image-ref: 'docker.io/my-organization/my-app:${{ github.sha }}'
          format: 'sarif'
          output: 'trivy-results.sarif'
        env:
          TRIVY_USERNAME: Username
          TRIVY_PASSWORD: Password

      - name: Upload Trivy scan results to GitHub Security tab
        uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: 'trivy-results.sarif'

Customizing

inputs

Following inputs can be used as step.with keys:

Name	Type	Default	Description
`scan-type`	String	`image`	Scan type, e.g. `image` or `fs`
`input`	String		Tar reference, e.g. `alpine-latest.tar`
`image-ref`	String		Image reference, e.g. `alpine:3.10.2`
`scan-ref`	String	`/github/workspace/`	Scan reference, e.g. `/github/workspace/` or `.`
`format`	String	`table`	Output format (`table`, `json`, `sarif`, `github`)
`template`	String		Output template (`@/contrib/gitlab.tpl`, `@/contrib/junit.tpl`)
`output`	String		Save results to a file
`exit-code`	String	`0`	Exit code when specified vulnerabilities are found
`ignore-unfixed`	Boolean	false	Ignore unpatched/unfixed vulnerabilities
`vuln-type`	String	`os,library`	Vulnerability types (os,library)
`severity`	String	`UNKNOWN,LOW,MEDIUM,HIGH,CRITICAL`	Severities of vulnerabilities to scanned for and displayed
`skip-dirs`	String		Comma separated list of directories where traversal is skipped
`skip-files`	String		Comma separated list of files where traversal is skipped
`cache-dir`	String		Cache directory
`timeout`	String	`5m0s`	Scan timeout duration
`ignore-policy`	String		Filter vulnerabilities with OPA rego language
`hide-progress`	String	`true`	Suppress progress bar
`list-all-pkgs`	String		Output all packages regardless of vulnerability
`scanners`	String	`vuln,secret`	comma-separated list of what security issues to detect (`vuln`,`secret`,`config`)
`trivyignores`	String		comma-separated list of relative paths in repository to one or more `.trivyignore` files
`trivy-config`	String		Path to trivy.yaml config
`github-pat`	String		Authentication token to enable sending SBOM scan results to GitHub Dependency Graph. Can be either a GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT) or GITHUB_TOKEN
`limit-severities-for-sarif`	Boolean	false	By default SARIF format enforces output of all vulnerabilities regardless of configured severities. To override this behavior set this parameter to true

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Trivy Action

Table of Contents

Usage

Scan CI Pipeline

Scan CI Pipeline (w/ Trivy Config)

Order of prerference for options

Scanning a Tarball

Using Trivy with GitHub Code Scanning

Using Trivy to scan your Git repo

Using Trivy to scan your rootfs directories

Using Trivy to scan Infrastructure as Code

Using Trivy to generate SBOM

Using Trivy to scan your private registry

Docker Hub registry

AWS ECR (Elastic Container Registry)

GCR (Google Container Registry)

Self-Hosted

Customizing

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