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@@ -651,12 +651,17 @@ issues. For urgent upstream problems, you will need to get paid support
 from the developers in [GeoServer](https://geoserver.org/). 
 
 ### Security Vulnerabilities
-The published image uses [Trivy](https://trivy.dev/latest/) for scanning vulnerabilities. The vulnerabilities
+The published image uses [Trivy](https://trivy.dev/latest/) to scan vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities
 are listed in the [security section](https://github.com/kartoza/docker-geoserver/security/code-scanning).
-You can also use other tools to scan the image for vulnerabilities. If you
-discover vulnerabilities related to how this image is packaged please raise it
-as an issue and label it with `security` tag. For reporting other upstream security
-issues please follow the guidelines from [upstream geoserver](https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/main/SECURITY.md)
+You can also use other tools to scan the image for vulnerabilities i.e. `docker scan`. 
+The images also inherit vulnerabilities from the base images i.e. [tomcat:9.0.91-jdk11-temurin-focal](https://hub.docker.com/_/tomcat/tags?name=9.0.91-jdk11-temurin-focal).
+So when reporting please vulnerabilities please try to distinguish them from the following:
+* Base image vulnerabilities - These should be reported in the upstream tomcat repository
+and if any fix is applied, we will have to build a new image using a newer image tag.
+* Packages installed with these images i.e. gosu. These should be reported as an
+issue in this repository and should be tagged with the `security` label.
+* Vulnerabilities directly related to libs installed with the GeoServer application, these 
+should be reported upstream following the guidelines from [upstream geoserver](https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/blob/main/SECURITY.md)
 
 Other platforms where users can ask questions and get assistance are listed below:
 * [Stack Exchange](https://stackexchange.com/)