--- title: Your average container image ships with about 600 CVEs,... description: A discussion highlights that the average container image contains around 600 CVEs, creating a recurring burden where engineers spend days or weeks each release... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/your-average-container-image-ships-with-about-600-cves-and-engineers-lose-weeks-patching-before-eve-yk2ehwzig twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Your average container image ships with about 600 CVEs, and engineers lose weeks patching before eve | daily.dev og:description: A discussion highlights that the average container image contains around 600 CVEs, creating a recurring burden where engineers spend days or weeks each release... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/your-average-container-image-ships-with-about-600-cves-and-engineers-lose-weeks-patching-before-eve-yk2ehwzig og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YK2EHwZIg.png og:image:alt: Your average container image ships with about 600 CVEs, and engineers lose weeks patching before eve og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your average container image ships with about 600 CVEs, and engineers lose weeks patching before eve **[Coffee \+ Software](https://daily.dev/sources/coffee-software)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A discussion highlights that the average container image contains around 600 CVEs, creating a recurring burden where engineers spend days or weeks each release cycle trying to patch vulnerabilities or find fixes, often without knowing where the vulnerabilities originate. Meanwhile, workloads either run with known vulnerabilities or releases get delayed over critical findings, repeating this cycle every release. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### why does my container image scan show hundreds of CVEs Container images commonly ship with around 600 CVEs on average because of accumulated vulnerable dependencies and base image layers. Teams often don't know where these vulnerabilities originate, which forces engineers to spend days or weeks each release trying to find or apply patches, sometimes delaying releases over critical findings. _Engineers wrestling with CVE-heavy scan results can follow practical vulnerability management discussions on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The State of Trusted Open Source](https://daily.dev/posts/the-state-of-trusted-open-source-u6kcy4gnc) · The Hacker News · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Most Container Images You Pull Today Are Already Full of Vulnerabilities](https://daily.dev/posts/most-container-images-you-pull-today-are-already-full-of-vulnerabilities-eykom3xxv) · Cloud Native Now · 6 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Linux Kernel Is Approaching 2,000 CVEs Per Release](https://daily.dev/posts/the-linux-kernel-is-approaching-2-000-cves-per-release-vzorlgrlg) · Phoronix · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#security](https://daily.dev/tags/security), 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