Containers based on Red Hat UBI 8 not scanned in ECR by Amazon Inspector

Question

Hello,

I pushed containers based on Red Hat UBI 8, which is a subset of RHEL 8. More than that, as stated by Red Hat: "UBI is RHEL. It’s not a downstream rebuild" (source: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/10/09/what-is-red-hat-universal-base-image).

Problem is: my containers are not scanned by Amazon Inspector. When I click on "See findings" in "Vulnerabilities" column I got "Scan status: UNSUPPORTED_IMAGE". The documentation mentions RHEL 8 as being supported though: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/inspector/latest/user/supported.html

I don't know how Inspector determines the OS in use but it seems it does not properly recognize UBI as RHEL (content of '/etc/redhat-release' file on UBI is clear enough: "Red Hat Enterprise Linux release 8.5 (Ootpa)").
Any idea? 
Thanks

Accepted Answer

FYI I did open a case at AWS support and they were able to repro the issue. It happens that the issue can be seen when you use podman to build images. Such images, once pushed into ECR, will show "UNSUPPORTED_IMAGE" scan status.

They now have fixed that and ECR Enhanced Scanning works properly on both Docker and Podman built images.

Answer

Following what you did, I pushed the original `ubi8/ubi:8.5-214`: in this case ECR scanning works and no findings were reported (no CVE currently).

Then I pushed an image built using super simple following DockerFile:

```
FROM registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8/ubi:8.5-214

CMD ["/bin/bash"]
```

And then ECR scanning failed with "Scan status: UNSUPPORTED_IMAGE". Note that I use the AWS Console since using the CLI (`aws inspector2 list-findings --filter-criteria '{"ecrImageRepositoryName": [{"comparison": "EQUALS", "value": ""}]}'`) always reports no findings.

Answer

I tried to push `ubi8/ubi:8.5-200` in my environment.

As a result, a scan was performed, and one vulnerability was detected.

Here is the result of referring to findings in AWS CLI.

```
$ aws inspector2 list-findings
{
    "findings": [
        {
            "awsAccountId": "123456789012",
            "description": "A flaw was found in the way Unicode standards are implemented in the context of development environments, which have specialized requirements for rendering text. An attacker could exploit this to deceive a human reviewer by creating a malicious patch containing well placed BiDi characters. The special handling and rendering of those characters can be then used in an attempt to hide unexpected and potentially dangerous behaviour from the reviewer.",
            "findingArn": "arn:aws:inspector2:ap-northeast-1:123456789012:finding/0b9c60a7b1ddba6e914d21aa04cf****",
            "firstObservedAt": "2021-12-23T03:06:02.647000+00:00",
            "inspectorScore": 8.5,
            "inspectorScoreDetails": {
                "adjustedCvss": {
                    "adjustments": [],
                    "cvssSource": "REDHAT_CVE",
                    "score": 8.5,
                    "scoreSource": "REDHAT_CVE",
                    "scoringVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                    "version": "3.1"
                }
            },
            "lastObservedAt": "2021-12-23T03:06:02.647000+00:00",
            "packageVulnerabilityDetails": {
                "cvss": [
                    {
                        "baseScore": 8.5,
                        "scoringVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "source": "REDHAT_CVE",
                        "version": "3.1"
                    },
                    {
                        "baseScore": 5.1,
                        "scoringVector": "AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P",
                        "source": "NVD",
                        "version": "2.0"
                    },
                    {
                        "baseScore": 8.3,
                        "scoringVector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H",
                        "source": "NVD",
                        "version": "3.1"
                    }
                ],
                "referenceUrls": [
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4037",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4730",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4598",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4036",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4596",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4035",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4034",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4694",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4595",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4039",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4038",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4599",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4590",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4033",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4594",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4593",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4592",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4591",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4649",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4669",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4724",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4729",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4587",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4586",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4585",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4723",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4602",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4601",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4600",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4743",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4589",
                    "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:4588"
                ],
                "relatedVulnerabilities": [],
                "source": "REDHAT_CVE",
                "sourceUrl": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-42574",
                "vendorCreatedAt": "2021-11-01T00:00:00+00:00",
                "vendorSeverity": "Moderate",
                "vulnerabilityId": "CVE-2021-42574",
                "vulnerablePackages": [
                    {
                        "arch": "X86_64",
                        "epoch": 0,
                        "name": "libgcc",
                        "packageManager": "OS",
                        "release": "3.el8",
                        "sourceLayerHash": "sha256:ce3c6836540f978b55c511d236429e26b7a45f5a6f1204ab8d4378afaf77332f",
                        "version": "8.5.0"
                    },
                    {
                        "arch": "X86_64",
                        "epoch": 0,
                        "name": "libstdc++",
                        "packageManager": "OS",
                        "release": "3.el8",
                        "sourceLayerHash": "sha256:ce3c6836540f978b55c511d236429e26b7a45f5a6f1204ab8d4378afaf77332f",
                        "version": "8.5.0"
                    }
                ]
            },
            "remediation": {
                "recommendation": {
                    "text": "This issue can be mitigated by ensuring code commits get a proper review. All new commits can also be scanned for the presence of BiDi characters before accepting the commit."
                }
            },
            "resources": [
                {
                    "details": {
                        "awsEcrContainerImage": {
                            "architecture": "amd64",
                            "imageHash": "sha256:8ee9d7bbcfc19d383f9044316a5c5fbcbe2df6be3c97f6c7a5422527b29bdede",
                            "imageTags": [
                                "8.5-200"
                            ],
                            "platform": "RHEL_8",
                            "pushedAt": "2021-12-23T03:05:54+00:00",
                            "registry": "123456789012",
                            "repositoryName": "test/ubi8/ubi"
                        }
                    },
                    "id": "arn:aws:ecr:ap-northeast-1:123456789012:repository/test/ubi8/ubi/sha256:8ee9d7bbcfc19d383f9044316a5c5fbcbe2df6be3c97f6c7a5422527b29bdede",
                    "partition": "N/A",
                    "region": "N/A",
                    "tags": {},
                    "type": "AWS_ECR_CONTAINER_IMAGE"
                }
            ],
            "severity": "HIGH",
            "status": "ACTIVE",
            "title": "CVE-2021-42574 - libgcc, libstdc++",
            "type": "PACKAGE_VULNERABILITY",
            "updatedAt": "2021-12-23T03:06:02.647000+00:00"
        }
    ]
}
```

Containers based on Red Hat UBI 8 not scanned in ECR by Amazon Inspector

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