How to Reduce CVEs in Your Docker Images: Container Security Guide [2026]

It starts innocently enough. You pull a popular image, run docker scan or Trivy out of curiosity, and suddenly you are staring at a wall of red: hundreds of vulnerabilities in a container you built yesterday. The common reaction is panic, then dismissal — &ldquo;it&rsquo;s just a base image, everyone runs this.&rdquo; Both reactions are wrong. Reducing CVEs in container images is not about…