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 Containers are minimal container images that are secure by default.

In many cases, the Chainguard Containers tagged as :latest contain only an open-source application and its runtime dependencies. These minimal container images typically do not contain a shell or package manager. Chainguard Containers are built with Wolfi, our Linux undistro 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 -dev variant.

Although the -dev container image variants have similar security features as their more minimal versions, they feature additional software that is typically not necessary in production environments. We recommend using multi-stage builds to leverage the -dev variants, copying application artifacts into a final minimal container that offers a reduced attack surface that won’t allow package installations or logins.

Learn More

To better understand how to work with Chainguard Containers, please visit Chainguard Academy and Chainguard Courses.

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