Impact Score: 5/10
Trivy v0.14.0 — Release Notes & Engineering Impact
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Component: trivy · Channel: stable. Automated analysis, not a compatibility certification. How this works.
Analysis updated: 2026-11-01.
⚡ Executive Summary (TL;DR)
Trivy v0.14.0. Source highlight: Add primary URLs (#752)
Who Does This Impact? (Role-Based Analysis)
💻 Software Engineers & Devs
Check the source notes against the package and APIs you use before upgrading.
📊 Product & Engineering Leads
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⚙️ DevOps & Security
Verify the target version, runtime requirements and rollback procedure in the official documentation.
📄 View Raw Release Notes (Original Developer Log)
## Features
### Add primary URLs (#752)
Trivy shows a primary URL in the result as follows.
```
alpine:3.10 (alpine 3.10.5)
===========================
Total: 2 (UNKNOWN: 2, LOW: 0, MEDIUM: 0, HIGH: 0, CRITICAL: 0)
+------------+------------------+----------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| LIBRARY | VULNERABILITY ID | SEVERITY | INSTALLED VERSION | FIXED VERSION | TITLE | URL |
+------------+------------------+----------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+------------------------------------+
| musl | CVE-2020-28928 | UNKNOWN | 1.1.22-r3 | 1.1.22-r4 | In musl libc through 1.2.1, | avd.aquasec.com/nvd/cve-2020-28928 |
| | | | | | wcsnrtombs mishandles | |
| | | | | | particular combinations of | |
| | | | | | destination buffer... | |
+------------+ + + + + + +
| musl-utils | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
+------------+------------------+----------+-------------------+---------------+--------------------------------+------------------------------------+
```
```
[
{
"Target": "alpine:3.10 (alpine 3.10.5)",
"Type": "alpine",
"Vulnerabilities": [
{
"VulnerabilityID": "CVE-2020-28928",
"PrimaryURL": "https://avd.aquasec.com/nvd/cve-2020-28928",
...
}
]
}
]
```
In these cases, you can see `https://avd.aquasec.com/nvd/cve-2020-28928` as a primary URL.
### Remove rpm dependency (#753)
Trivy no longer requires the `rpm` command on the host. You can scan a RHEL-based image without rpm.
```
$ rpm
bash: rpm: command not found
$ trivy image -o /dev/null centos:7
centos:7 (centos 7.9.2009)
==========================
Total: 601 (UNKNOWN: 0, LOW: 358, MEDIUM: 240, HIGH: 3, CRITICAL: 0)
```
## Bug fixes
### --light shows less results (#755)
There was a bug where vulnerabilities with unknown severity do not appear in the result when using the `--light` option.
## Changelog
9bdbeab feat: remove rpm dependency (#753)
d85cb77 fix(vulnerability): make an empty severity UNKNOWN (#759)
1bee83c chore(README): add TRIVY_INSECURE (#760)
4d18943 feat(vulnerability): add primary URLs (#752)
## Docker images
- `docker pull docker.io/aquasec/trivy:0.14.0`
- `docker pull docker.io/aquasec/trivy:latest`
- `docker pull ghcr.io/aquasecurity/trivy:0.14.0`
- `docker pull ghcr.io/aquasecurity/trivy:latest`