Analyze local files with Docker Scout

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You can use the fs:// protocol prefix with Docker Scout CLI commands to analyze your local source code directly, without having to build and push container images. The following commands support the fs:// prefix:

docker scout quickview
docker scout cves
docker scout compare

This feature is available in Docker Scout CLI plugin version 1.0.3 and later.

Summary

To get an at-a-glance vulnerability summary of the source code in the current working directory:

$ docker scout quickview fs://.

Details

To view the details of vulnerabilities found in your local source code, you can use the docker scout cves --details fs://. command. Combine it with other flags to narrow down the results to the packages and vulnerabilities that you're interested in.

$ docker scout cves --details --only-severity high fs://.
    ✓ File system read
    ✓ Indexed 323 packages
    ✗ Detected 1 vulnerable package with 1 vulnerability

## Overview

                    │        Analyzed path         
────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────
  Path              │  /Users/david/demo/scoutfs   
    vulnerabilities │    0C     1H     0M     0L   

## Packages and Vulnerabilities

   0C     1H     0M     0L  fastify 3.29.0
pkg:npm/fastify@3.29.0

    ✗ HIGH CVE-2022-39288 [OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities]
      https://scout.docker.com/v/CVE-2022-39288
    
      fastify is a fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js. Affected versions of 
      fastify are subject to a denial of service via malicious use of the Content-Type    
      header. An attacker can send an invalid Content-Type header that can cause the      
      application to crash. This issue has been addressed in commit  fbb07e8d  and will be
      included in release version 4.8.1. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to    
      upgrade may manually filter out http content with malicious Content-Type headers.   
    
      Affected range : <4.8.1                                        
      Fixed version  : 4.8.1                                         
      CVSS Score     : 7.5                                           
      CVSS Vector    : CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H  
    
1 vulnerability found in 1 package
  LOW       0  
  MEDIUM    0  
  HIGH      1  
  CRITICAL  0

Compare

With docker scout compare, you can compare the analysis of source code on your local filesystem with the analysis of a container image. The following example compares local source code for the Docker Scout CLI plugin with the docker/scout-cli:latest image on Docker Hub.

$ docker scout compare fs://. --to docker/scout-cli:latest --ignore-unchanged
WARN 'docker scout compare' is experimental and its behaviour might change in the future
    ✓ File system read
    ✓ Indexed 268 packages
    ✓ SBOM of image already cached, 234 packages indexed


  ## Overview

                           │              Analyzed File System              │              Comparison Image
  ─────────────────────────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────────────────────
    Path / Image reference │  /Users/david/src/docker/scout-cli-plugin      │  docker/scout-cli:latest
                           │                                                │  bb0b01303584
      platform             │                                                │ linux/arm64
      provenance           │ https://github.com/dvdksn/scout-cli-plugin.git │ https://github.com/docker/scout-cli-plugin
                           │  6ea3f7369dbdfec101ac7c0fa9d78ef05ffa6315      │  67cb4ef78bd69545af0e223ba5fb577b27094505
      vulnerabilities      │    0C     0H     1M     1L                     │    0C     0H     1M     1L
                           │                                                │
      size                 │ 7.4 MB (-14 MB)                                │ 21 MB
      packages             │ 268 (+34)                                      │ 234
                           │                                                │


  ## Packages and Vulnerabilities


    +   55 packages added
    -   21 packages removed
       213 packages unchanged

The previous example is truncated. The full output also includes a full package delta for the comparison. The delta shows what packages were added, removed, and changed between the versions.

The compare output includes VCS provenance for both the local source code and the compare target, when available.

Learn more

Read about the commands and supported flags in the CLI reference documentation: