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Trivy Vulnerability Report

Schema for a Trivy vulnerability scan report containing detected CVEs and package vulnerabilities

ContainersKubernetesSBOMSecurityVulnerability ScanningOpen SourceDevSecOpsCloud Security

Properties

Name Type Description
SchemaVersion integer Schema version of the report
ArtifactName string Name of the scanned artifact (container image, file path, repo URL)
ArtifactType string Type of artifact scanned
Metadata object Metadata about the scan target
Results array Scan results per target layer or component
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JSON Schema

trivy-vulnerability-report-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
  "$id": "https://api-evangelist.github.io/trivy/json-schema/trivy-vulnerability-report-schema.json",
  "title": "Trivy Vulnerability Report",
  "description": "Schema for a Trivy vulnerability scan report containing detected CVEs and package vulnerabilities",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "SchemaVersion": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Schema version of the report",
      "example": 2
    },
    "ArtifactName": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Name of the scanned artifact (container image, file path, repo URL)"
    },
    "ArtifactType": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Type of artifact scanned",
      "enum": ["container_image", "filesystem", "repository", "virtual-machine", "sbom"]
    },
    "Metadata": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "Metadata about the scan target",
      "properties": {
        "OS": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "Family": { "type": "string", "description": "OS family (alpine, debian, ubuntu, etc.)" },
            "Name": { "type": "string", "description": "OS name and version" }
          }
        },
        "ImageID": { "type": "string", "description": "Container image ID" },
        "DiffIDs": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "type": "string" }
        },
        "RepoTags": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "type": "string" }
        },
        "RepoDigests": {
          "type": "array",
          "items": { "type": "string" }
        }
      }
    },
    "Results": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "Scan results per target layer or component",
      "items": {
        "$ref": "#/definitions/Result"
      }
    }
  },
  "definitions": {
    "Result": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "Target": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Name of the scanned target (layer, file, or package)"
        },
        "Class": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Result class",
          "enum": ["os-pkgs", "lang-pkgs", "config", "secret", "license"]
        },
        "Type": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Package manager or format type"
        },
        "Vulnerabilities": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "List of detected vulnerabilities",
          "items": {
            "$ref": "#/definitions/Vulnerability"
          }
        },
        "Misconfigurations": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Detected misconfigurations",
          "items": {
            "$ref": "#/definitions/Misconfiguration"
          }
        },
        "Secrets": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Detected secrets",
          "items": {
            "$ref": "#/definitions/Secret"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "Vulnerability": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["VulnerabilityID", "Severity"],
      "properties": {
        "VulnerabilityID": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "CVE or vulnerability identifier",
          "example": "CVE-2021-44228"
        },
        "PkgName": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Affected package name"
        },
        "PkgVersion": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Current package version"
        },
        "FixedVersion": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Version that fixes the vulnerability"
        },
        "Severity": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Vulnerability severity",
          "enum": ["CRITICAL", "HIGH", "MEDIUM", "LOW", "UNKNOWN"]
        },
        "Title": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Short title of the vulnerability"
        },
        "Description": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Detailed vulnerability description"
        },
        "CVSS": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "CVSS scores from various sources"
        },
        "References": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Reference URLs for the vulnerability",
          "items": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }
        },
        "PublishedDate": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "date-time"
        },
        "LastModifiedDate": {
          "type": "string",
          "format": "date-time"
        }
      }
    },
    "Misconfiguration": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "Type": { "type": "string", "description": "Misconfiguration type (e.g., Kubernetes, Dockerfile)" },
        "ID": { "type": "string", "description": "Rule identifier" },
        "Title": { "type": "string" },
        "Description": { "type": "string" },
        "Message": { "type": "string" },
        "Severity": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": ["CRITICAL", "HIGH", "MEDIUM", "LOW", "UNKNOWN"]
        },
        "Status": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": ["FAIL", "PASS", "WARN", "EXCEPTION"]
        }
      }
    },
    "Secret": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "RuleID": { "type": "string", "description": "Secret detection rule ID" },
        "Category": { "type": "string", "description": "Secret category (e.g., aws-access-key)" },
        "Title": { "type": "string" },
        "Severity": {
          "type": "string",
          "enum": ["CRITICAL", "HIGH", "MEDIUM", "LOW", "UNKNOWN"]
        },
        "StartLine": { "type": "integer" },
        "EndLine": { "type": "integer" },
        "Code": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Code snippet context"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}