Chainguard Container for grype-fips

A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems. This image is built and tested for FIPS compliance to meet strict security standards in regulated environments.

Chainguard Containers are regularly-updated, secure-by-default container images.

Download this Container Image

For those with access, this container image is available on cgr.dev:

docker pull cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/grype-fips:latest

Be sure to replace the ORGANIZATION placeholder with the name used for your organization's private repository within the Chainguard Registry.

Compatibility Notes

Chainguard's grype-fips image is comparable to the official grype Image but with the following changes:

• We use a different entrypoint /usr/bin/grype as compared to the upstream's endpoint /grype.
• We use a different CMD which is help whereas the upstream leaves it unset.
• We don't define any WorkingDir whereas the upstream sets it to /tmp.

This image is the FIPS version of our already existing grype image. It is built built and tested for FIPS compliance to meet strict security standards in regulated environments.

Getting Started

The following command will scan an image for vulnerabilities using the grype-fips image. It analyzes the target image against known vulnerability databases and outputs a report with detected issues including vulnerability IDs, severities, and affected packages:

docker run --rm cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/grype-fips:latest cgr.dev/chainguard/static:latest

When you run this command, you will receive output similar to the following, since Chainguard images are designed to have few-to-zero vulnerabilites.

No vulnerabilities found

However, if you try to run the scan on a regular image, you might see an output like this:

docker run --rm cgr.dev/ORGANIZATION/grype:latest golang

NAME                        INSTALLED              FIXED-IN     TYPE  VULNERABILITY     SEVERITY   
wget                        1.21.3-1+b1            (won't fix)  deb   CVE-2024-38428    Critical    
wget                        1.21.3-1+b1            (won't fix)  deb   CVE-2021-31879    Medium      
wget                        1.21.3-1+b1            (won't fix)  deb   CVE-2024-10524    Medium

Documentation and Resources

• Grype's Official Getting Started
• Documentation
• Provenance Information

What are Chainguard Containers?

Chainguard's free tier of Starter container images are built with Wolfi, our minimal Linux undistro.

All other Chainguard Containers are built with Chainguard OS, Chainguard's minimal Linux operating system designed to produce container images that meet the requirements of a more secure software supply chain.

The main features of Chainguard Containers include:

• Minimal design, without unnecessary software bloat
• Daily builds to ensure container images are up-to-date with available security patches
• High quality build-time SBOMs attesting to the provenance of all artifacts within the image
• Verifiable signatures provided by Sigstore
• Reproducible builds with Cosign and apko (read more about reproducibility)

For cases where you need container images with shells and package managers to build or debug, most Chainguard Containers come paired with a development, or -dev, variant.

In all other cases, including Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest or with a specific version number, the container images include only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they include additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to copy artifacts from the -dev variant into a more minimal production image.

Need additional packages?

To improve security, Chainguard Containers include only essential dependencies. Need more packages? Chainguard customers can use Custom Assembly to add packages, either through the Console, chainctl, or API.

To use Custom Assembly in the Chainguard Console: navigate to the image you'd like to customize in your Organization's list of images, and click on the Customize image button at the top of the page.

Learn More

Refer to our Chainguard Containers documentation on Chainguard Academy. Chainguard also offers VMs and Libraries — contact us for access.

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