Scan images for software vulnerabilities in Amazon ECR - Amazon ECR

Scan images for software vulnerabilities in Amazon ECR

Amazon ECR image scanning helps to identify software vulnerabilities in your container images. The following scanning types are offered.

Important

Switching between the Enhanced scanning, Basic scanning, and the Improved basic scanning versions will cause previously established scans to no longer be available. You will have to set up your scans again. However, if you switch back to your previous scanning version the established scans will be available.

  • Enhanced scanning—Amazon ECR integrates with Amazon Inspector to provide automated, continuous scanning of your repositories. Your container images are scanned for both operating systems and programming language package vulnerabilities. As new vulnerabilities appear, the scan results are updated and Amazon Inspector emits an event to EventBridge to notify you. Enhanced scanning provides the following:

    • OS and programming languages package vulnerabilities.

    • Two scanning frequencies: Scan on push and continuous scan.

  • Basic scanning—Amazon ECR provides two versions of basic scanning which use the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) database: the current GA version that uses the open-source Clair project and an improved version of basic scanning that uses our AWS native technology. With basic scanning, you configure your repositories to scan on push or you can perform manual scans and Amazon ECR provides a list of scan findings. Basic scanning provides the following:

    • OS scans.

    • Two scanning frequencies: Manual and scan on push.

    Important

    The new version of basic scanning does not support imageScanFindingsSummary and imageScanStatus in the DescribeImages API. To view these, use the DescribeImageScanFindings API.