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Clair

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Velocity2.5

Container vulnerability scanner by Quay

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Clair 4.10 RC can read SBOMs to match Java vulnerabilities.

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◆Current state
Clair cut its first 4.10.0 release candidate on November 13, eleven months after 4.9.0. Its Java indexers can now read CycloneDX SBOM files and treat them as the source of truth, and Red Hat's VEX data now covers Maven advisories, so Java packages in Red Hat images can be matched. It also reduces memory use when many packages share a source package.
◆Where it's heading
Since 4.8 Clair has moved from Red Hat's older OVAL data to VEX, and each release follows Red Hat's security data more closely. 4.10 adds SBOMs as an input, so Clair can match what an image's own manifest declares, not only what it finds on disk.
◆Prediction
More 4.10 release candidates and then a final are likely; the long gap between releases suggests that could take weeks.

◆Recent moves

  1. 12h ago

    Clair 4.10 RC reads CycloneDX SBOMs for Java matching

    Java indexing can now take CycloneDX SBOM files as the source of truth, and Red Hat VEX Maven advisories are matched against them. It is the first input beyond the filesystem and continues Clair's close tracking of Red Hat security data.

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  2. 11mo ago

    Clair 4.9 moves CVSS data to NVD's 2.0 feeds

    CVSS enrichment switches to NVD's 2.0 feeds after the 1.1 feed was retired, and enrichment no longer reads vulnerability descriptions that cite other CVEs. Necessary to keep scores working and more accurate.

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  3. 2y ago

    Clair 4.8 replaces Red Hat OVAL data with VEX

    The OVAL-based Red Hat updaters are deprecated and a migration deletes their data in favor of VEX, with a command to run the cleanup ahead of time. The release that set the direction later versions build on.

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  4. 2y ago

    Clair 4.7.4 changes the default layer download location

    Layer downloads move to a new default location with a fallback for setups that can't use O_TMPFILE, and Debian and dpkg source packages are recorded more accurately. Operators need to check paths on upgrade.

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  5. 2y ago

    Clair 4.7.3 requires TLS 1.2 or newer

    Servers now refuse TLS 1.1, and Red Hat sideband data can be compressed to fit in a Kubernetes ConfigMap. A security baseline change plus a deployment convenience.

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  6. 3y ago

    Clair 4.7.2 drops the retired CRDA source

    Support for the decommissioned CRDA API is removed, since OSV already covers it, plus a toolkit bug fix. Cleanup.

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