Retrieving the findings for enhanced scans in Amazon ECR - Amazon ECR
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Retrieving the findings for enhanced scans in Amazon ECR

You can retrieve the scan findings for the last completed enhanced image scan, and then open the findings in Amazon Inspector to see more detail. The software vulnerabilities that were discovered are listed by severity based on the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) database.

For troubleshooting details for some common issues when scanning images, see Troubleshooting image scanning in Amazon ECR.

Amazon Web Services Management Console

Use the following steps to retrieve image scan findings using the Amazon Web Services Management Console.

To retrieve image scan findings
  1. Open the Amazon ECR console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/ecr/.

  2. From the navigation bar, choose the Region where your repository exists.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Repositories.

  4. On the Repositories page, choose the repository that contains the image to retrieve the scan findings for.

  5. On the Images page, under the Image tag column, select the image tag to retrieve the scan findings.

  6. To view more details in the Amazon Inspector console, choose the vulnerability name in the Name column.

Amazon CLI

Use the following Amazon CLI command to retrieve image scan findings using the Amazon CLI. You can specify an image using the imageTag or imageDigest, both of which can be obtained using the list-images CLI command.

  • describe-image-scan-findings (Amazon CLI)

    The following example uses an image tag.

    aws ecr describe-image-scan-findings \ --repository-name name \ --image-id imageTag=tag_name \ --region us-east-2

    The following example uses an image digest.

    aws ecr describe-image-scan-findings \ --repository-name name \ --image-id imageDigest=sha256_hash \ --region us-east-2