Windows Container Scanning

Anchore can analyze and provide vulnerability matches for Microsoft Windows images. Anchore downloads, unpacks, and analyzes the Microsoft Windows image contents similar to Linux-based images, providing OS information as well as discovered application packages like npms, gems, python, NuGet, and java archives.

Vulnerabilities for Microsoft Windows images are matched against the detected operating system version and KBs installed in the image. These are matched using data from the Microsoft Security Research Center (MSRC) data API.

Requirements

Analyzing Microsoft Windows images is supported out-of-the-box with no configuration changes - but to get vulnerability results, your deployment must meet the following criteria:

1. Deploy an on-premises feed service
2. Have the microsoft vulnerability provider enabled in the feed service

Configuring Microsoft Provider

In the feed service configuration, enable the msrc driver.

services:
  feeds:
    ...
    drivers:
      ...
      msrc:
        enabled: true

Supported Windows Base Image Versions

The following are the MSRC Product IDs that Anchore can detect and provide vulnerability information for. These provide the basis for the main variants of the base Windows containers: Windows, ServerCore, NanoSerer, and IoTCore

Windows Operating System Packages

Just as Linux images are scanned for packages such as RPMs, DPKG, and APK, Windows images are scanned for the installed components and Knowledge Base patches (KBs). When listing operating system content on a Microsoft Windows image, the results returned are KB identifiers that are numeric. Both the name and version will be identical and are the KB IDs.