diff --git a/e2etests/grpc_full_test.go b/e2etests/grpc_full_test.go
index 67d43d3fa..d065c637e 100644
--- a/e2etests/grpc_full_test.go
+++ b/e2etests/grpc_full_test.go
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@ func checkGRPCMatch(t *testing.T, expectedVuln, matchingVuln *v1.Vulnerability)
 	}
 	expectedVuln.MetadataV2 = nil
 	matchingVuln.MetadataV2 = nil
+
+	expectedVuln.Description = normalizeString(expectedVuln.Description)
+	matchingVuln.Description = normalizeString(matchingVuln.Description)
+
 	assert.Equal(t, expectedVuln, matchingVuln)
 }
 
diff --git a/e2etests/sanity_test.go b/e2etests/sanity_test.go
index bca846a75..dbf503f7c 100644
--- a/e2etests/sanity_test.go
+++ b/e2etests/sanity_test.go
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"fmt"
 	"sort"
+	"strings"
 	"testing"
 
 	v1 "github.com/stackrox/scanner/api/v1"
@@ -58,6 +59,10 @@ func checkMatch(t *testing.T, source string, expectedVuln, matchingVuln v1.Vulne
 	}
 	expectedVuln.Metadata = nil
 	matchingVuln.Metadata = nil
+
+	expectedVuln.Description = normalizeString(expectedVuln.Description)
+	matchingVuln.Description = normalizeString(matchingVuln.Description)
+
 	assert.Equal(t, expectedVuln, matchingVuln)
 }
 
@@ -183,3 +188,8 @@ func deepGet(m map[string]interface{}, keys ...string) interface{} {
 	}
 	return currVal
 }
+
+// normalizeString removes newlines and collapses multiple spaces into one.
+func normalizeString(s string) string {
+	return strings.Join(strings.Fields(s), " ")
+}
diff --git a/e2etests/testcase_test.go b/e2etests/testcase_test.go
index 63a267469..1ab075a09 100644
--- a/e2etests/testcase_test.go
+++ b/e2etests/testcase_test.go
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@ var testCases = []testCase{
 					{
 						Name:          "CVE-2018-1125",
 						NamespaceName: "centos:7",
-						Description:   "DOCUMENTATION: If a process inspected by pgrep has an argument longer than INT_MAX bytes, \"int bytes\" could wrap around back to a large positive int (rather than approaching zero), leading to a stack buffer overflow via strncat().                           MITIGATION: The procps suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is built with FORTIFY, which limits the impact of this stack overflow (and others like it) to a crash.",
+						Description:   "DOCUMENTATION: If a process inspected by pgrep has an argument longer than INT_MAX bytes, \"int bytes\" could wrap around back to a large positive int (rather than approaching zero), leading to a stack buffer overflow via strncat().                          MITIGATION: The procps suite on Red Hat Enterprise Linux is built with FORTIFY, which limits the impact of this stack overflow (and others like it) to a crash.",
 						Link:          "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1125",
 						Severity:      "Low",
 						Metadata: map[string]interface{}{