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Rocky Linux

Trivy supports the following scanners for OS packages.

Scanner Supported
SBOM
Vulnerability
License

Please see here for supported versions.

The table below outlines the features offered by Trivy.

Feature Supported
Unfixed vulnerabilities -
Dependency graph

SBOM

Trivy detects packages that have been installed through package managers such as dnf and yum.

Vulnerability

Rocky Linux offers its own security advisories, and these are utilized when scanning Rocky Linux for vulnerabilities.

Data Source

See here.

Fixed Version

Trivy takes fixed versions from Rocky Linux Errata, not NVD or somewhere else. See here for more details.

Architectures

There are cases when the vulnerability affects packages of not all architectures. For example, vulnerable packages for CVE-2023-0361 are only aarch64 packages.

Trivy only detects vulnerabilities for packages of your architecture.

Severity

Trivy calculates the severity of an issue based on the severity provided in Rocky Linux Errata.

The table below is the mapping of Rocky Linux's severity to Trivy's severity levels.

Rocky Linux Trivy
Low Low
Moderate Medium
Important High
Critical Critical

Status

Trivy supports the following vulnerability statuses for Rocky Linux.

Status Supported
Fixed
Affected
Under Investigation
Will Not Fix
Fix Deferred
End of Life

License

Trivy identifies licenses by examining the metadata of RPM packages.