# quay/clair

Vulnerability Static Analysis for Containers

Repository: https://github.com/quay/clair
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/clair
Homepage: https://quay.github.io/clair/
Language: Go
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: containers, static-analysis, go, kubernetes, docker, oci, oci-image, vulnerabilities, clair
Last push: 2026-08-25T23:03:45+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 74/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 28, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3946, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 266, "gap_med": 426, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11052, forks 1216 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:45.969995+00:00)

## What it is
Clair is an open-source service for static analysis of vulnerabilities in container images (OCI and Docker). It indexes image contents via an API and matches them against continuously updated vulnerability databases.

## Use cases
- scan container images for known vulnerabilities
- check docker images for CVEs before deployment
- integrate vulnerability scanning into CI/CD pipeline
- audit kubernetes workload images for security issues
- index OCI image layers and match against vulnerability feeds
- self-host a container vulnerability scanner

## When to choose
- you need automated CVE scanning of OCI or Docker images in a pipeline
- you want a self-hosted, API-driven container security scanner
- you need support for many Linux distro package formats and language packages

## When to avoid
- you need runtime or dynamic analysis of running containers
- you want a simple one-shot CLI scanner without running a service
- you only scan non-container artifacts like VMs or bare hosts

## Facets
- artifact type: service
- maturity: active
- function: vulnerability-scanning, security, http-server, api-framework
- domain: security, developer-tools
- platform: go, self-hosted, cloud
- tags: container-security, static-analysis, oci-images, docker-images, vulnerability-database, quay, containers, devops, linux, docker, kubernetes

## Member repositories
- quay/clair (main) score 74

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:45.969995+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:16:50.745601+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/quay/clair (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:45.969995+00:00, sha 3dfd110c7a5f)
  - homepage: https://quay.github.io/clair/ (fetched 2026-08-29T08:15:34.301004+00:00, sha 89ee62a8c6de)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.