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[ECR] [request]: Support whitelisting certain CVE findings

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**Tell us about your request**
We would like to be able to whitelist some vulnerabilities when doing an ECR scanning

**Which service(s) is this request for?**
ECR

**Tell us about the problem you're trying to solve. What are you trying to do, and why is it hard?**
We have a Docker image in an ECR repository. Scanning the image reports one vulnerability about a library we're using. According to the library documentation, the vulnerability is fixed in the version of the library we're using and it could be a false positive.
We're thinking about several actions to follow. One of them is whitelisting this specific vulnerability, but it's not possible with AWS ECR scanning.

**Are you currently working around this issue?**
We're using another Linux base image, but the new generated image is bigger than the original one, about 3 times bigger.

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Research direction

Start by reviewing the ECR image-scanning workflow described in the issue and how it reports CVE findings for Docker images. No repository files or tests are named; done would mean defining and documenting a way to whitelist selected vulnerabilities while retaining scanning for the remaining findings.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
aws, docker
Domain
cloud, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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