Feed Synchronization
When Anchore Enterprise runs it will begin to synchronize security feed data from the Anchore feed service.
CVE data for Linux distributions such as Alpine, CentOS, Debian, Oracle, Red Hat and Ubuntu will be downloaded. The initial sync may take anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes depending on the speed of your network connection.
Checking Feed Status
Feed information can be retrieved through the API and AnchoreCTL.
# anchorectl feed list
✔ List feed
┌─────────────────┬────────────────────┬─────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────┐
│ FEED │ GROUP │ ENABLED │ LAST SYNC │ RECORD COUNT │
├─────────────────┼────────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────┤
│ vulnerabilities │ github:composer │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 2148 │
│ vulnerabilities │ github:gem │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 700 │
│ vulnerabilities │ github:go │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1176 │
│ vulnerabilities │ github:java │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 3848 │
│ vulnerabilities │ github:npm │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 3450 │
│ vulnerabilities │ github:nuget │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 496 │
│ vulnerabilities │ github:python │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1966 │
│ vulnerabilities │ github:rust │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 628 │
│ vulnerabilities │ nvd │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 223049 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 2321 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.11 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 2659 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.12 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 3193 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.13 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 3684 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.14 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 4265 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.15 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 4760 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.16 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 5146 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.17 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 5399 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.18 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 5566 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.2 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 305 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.3 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 470 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.4 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 679 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.5 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 902 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.6 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1075 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.7 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1461 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.8 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1671 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:3.9 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1955 │
│ vulnerabilities │ alpine:edge │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 5571 │
│ vulnerabilities │ amzn:2 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1381 │
│ vulnerabilities │ amzn:2022 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 276 │
│ vulnerabilities │ amzn:2023 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 300 │
│ vulnerabilities │ chainguard:rolling │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 378 │
│ vulnerabilities │ debian:10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 27731 │
│ vulnerabilities │ debian:11 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 27886 │
│ vulnerabilities │ debian:12 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 26675 │
│ vulnerabilities │ debian:13 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 26359 │
│ vulnerabilities │ debian:7 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 20455 │
│ vulnerabilities │ debian:8 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 24058 │
│ vulnerabilities │ debian:9 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 28240 │
│ vulnerabilities │ debian:unstable │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 30185 │
│ vulnerabilities │ mariner:1.0 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 2096 │
│ vulnerabilities │ mariner:2.0 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1774 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ol:5 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1255 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ol:6 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1695 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ol:7 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 2005 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ol:8 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1372 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ol:9 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 359 │
│ vulnerabilities │ rhel:5 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 6995 │
│ vulnerabilities │ rhel:6 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8720 │
│ vulnerabilities │ rhel:7 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8452 │
│ vulnerabilities │ rhel:8 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 4828 │
│ vulnerabilities │ rhel:9 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 1752 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:11 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 594 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:11.1 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 6125 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:11.2 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 3291 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:11.3 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 7081 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:11.4 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 6583 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:12 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 5948 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:12.1 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 6205 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:12.2 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8306 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:12.3 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 10161 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:12.4 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 10121 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:12.5 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 10728 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:15 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8738 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:15.1 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8852 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:15.2 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8455 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:15.3 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8753 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:15.4 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8678 │
│ vulnerabilities │ sles:15.5 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 7753 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:12.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 14934 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:12.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 5641 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:13.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 4117 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:14.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 32822 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:14.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 4437 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:15.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 6220 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:15.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 6489 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:16.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 29968 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:16.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8607 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:17.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 9094 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:17.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 7900 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:18.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 24446 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:18.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8368 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:19.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8635 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:19.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 8416 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:20.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 18500 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:20.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 9979 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:21.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 11310 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:21.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 12627 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:22.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 16763 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:22.10 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 14506 │
│ vulnerabilities │ ubuntu:23.04 │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 14044 │
│ vulnerabilities │ wolfi:rolling │ true │ 2023-08-21T16:41:04Z │ 353 │
└─────────────────┴────────────────────┴─────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────┘
This command will report list the feeds synchronized by Anchore Enterprise, last sync time and current record count.
Note: Time is reported as UTC, not local time.
Manually initiating feed sync
After the initial sync has completed the system will run an incremental sync at a user defined period, by default every 4 hours. At any time a feed sync can be initiated through the API or AnchoreCTL.
A sync operation can be manually initiated by running the system feeds sync command however this should not be required under normal operation.
# anchorectl feed sync
✔ Sync feed
┌─────────────────┬─────────┬──────────────┐
│ FEED │ STATUS │ TIME TO SYNC │
├─────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ vulnerabilities │ success │ 0 │
└─────────────────┴─────────┴──────────────┘
Performing full resync
Anchore Enterprise can be instructed to flush the current feed data and perform a full synchronization.
NOTE: Under normal circumstances this operation should not be performed since Anchore Enterprise performs regular incremental sync.
NOTE: This process may take anywhere from 10 to 60 minutes depending on the speed of your network connection, and will cause interruptions in regular operations during sync. It is included for testing and troubleshooting scenarios only.
# anchorectl feed sync --flush
✔ Sync feed
┌─────────────────┬─────────┬──────────────┐
│ FEED │ STATUS │ TIME TO SYNC │
├─────────────────┼─────────┼──────────────┤
│ vulnerabilities │ success │ 0 │
└─────────────────┴─────────┴──────────────┘