If the base image I use is based on Debian, it comes with more than 15 binaries that I don't use.

But when Docker scans my image and notices that there is a CVE in one of those binaries, my image is currently out of compliance.

FROM scratch just reduces the surface.

> FROM scratch just reduces the surface.

The actual attack surface of your application? Or the attack surface of you and your team's attention from a busybody security org.

It's important not to confuse the two.