Terraform

Trivy supports the scanners listed in the table below.

Scanner	Supported
Misconfiguration	✓
Secret	✓

It supports the following formats:

Format	Supported
JSON	✓
HCL	✓
Plan JSON	✓

Trivy can scan the results of terraform plan. You can scan by passing the file generated as shown below to Trivy:

$ terraform plan --out tfplan.binary
$ terraform show -json tfplan.binary > tfplan.json

Misconfiguration

Trivy recursively searches directories and scans all found Terraform files. It also evaluates variables, imports, and other elements within Terraform files to detect misconfigurations.

Value Overrides

You can provide tf-vars files to Trivy to override default values specified in the Terraform HCL code.

trivy conf --tf-vars dev.terraform.tfvars ./infrastructure/tf

Exclude Downloaded Terraform Modules

By default, downloaded modules are also scanned. If you don't want to scan them, you can use the --tf-exclude-downloaded-modules flag.

trivy conf --tf-exclude-downloaded-modules ./configs

Secret

The secret scan is performed on plain text files, with no special treatment for Terraform.