cisco-anyconnect
LOW
maintainer crabvk
19 votes
scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
Why flagged
The source is a prebuilt Cisco AnyConnect client from a university IT department's official helpdesk, which is a plausible and trusted host for distributing this software; the package installs only the project's own binaries and data without executing remote code or obfuscation.
Triggered rules
Low
AI review downgraded a static finding
llm_review
The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 90%): The source is a prebuilt Cisco AnyConnect client from a university IT department's official helpdesk, which is a plausible and trusted host for distributing this software; the package installs only the project's own binaries and data without executing remote code or obfuscation.
1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
Medium
source=() URL on a non-standard host
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:27
"https://helpdesk.ugent.be/vpn/download/anyconnect-linux64-$pkgver-predeploy-k9.tar.gz"
PKGBUILD
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# Maintainer: Vyacheslav Konovalov <🦀vk@protonmail.com>
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# Contributor: Posi <posi1981@gmail.com>
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# Contributor: Mikhail Velichko <efklid@gmail.com>
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# Contributor: Michael Duncan Hammond <mhammond9@radford.edu>
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# Contributor: K900 <me@0upti.me>
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pkgname=cisco-anyconnect
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pkgver=4.10.08029
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pkgrel=2
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pkgdesc='Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client'
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url='https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/anyconnect-secure-mobility-client-v4-x/model.html'
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arch=('x86_64')
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depends=('libxml2' 'ca-certificates' 'libxml2-legacy')
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optdepends=(
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'hicolor-icon-theme: required by desktop shortcuts'
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'gtk2: required by vpnui'
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'glib2: required by vpnui'
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'gtk3: required by acwebhelper'
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'webkit2gtk: required by acwebhelper'
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)
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license=('custom')
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# Stripping the binaries trips some sort of an integrity check inside vpnagentd.
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options=('!strip')
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source=(
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"https://helpdesk.ugent.be/vpn/download/anyconnect-linux64-$pkgver-predeploy-k9.tar.gz"
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'AnyConnectLocalPolicy.xml'
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"$pkgname.sh"
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)
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sha512sums=(
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'4ab4de736fc03f1261ee417a0afeb277bfcaca78b66671021d3ffba9640af352d531a6a32c8ea92e69ca0bf862ba0b96e5e5a67df86fb541c6f3ddad7c054f45'
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'4b6af68475ec427e51d0811b07637b132eb7a49b70de4142ea1f11f6c96c330c1cd368c178db86116457fb9a3eea1800873d3a1f03a0560fbec6fa63d88dc8ce'
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'a5de5f992f81c60bae9bcf7c784d3e335f1a709d76b363ec7d6d0e1846e2e23481b50dcbe7826755a3911a5f8fb53432a3d4cff1cc4bc5a13f9aedcf9a4c8c99'
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)
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package() {
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cd "anyconnect-linux64-$pkgver/vpn"
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# Install binaries.
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for binary in vpnagentd vpn vpndownloader vpndownloader-cli manifesttool_vpn acinstallhelper \
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vpnui acwebhelper load_tun.sh; do
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install -Dm755 $binary -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin"
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done
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# Install libs.
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for lib in libvpnagentutilities.so libvpncommon.so libvpncommoncrypt.so libvpnapi.so \
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libacruntime.so libacciscossl.so libacciscocrypto.so cfom.so libboost_date_time.so \
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libboost_filesystem.so libboost_regex.so libboost_system.so libboost_thread.so \
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libboost_signals.so libboost_chrono.so libaccurl.so.4.8.0; do
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install -Dm755 $lib -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/lib"
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done
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# The installer copies all the other symlinks, but creates this one for some reason,
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# so lets just create it ourselves.
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ln -s /opt/cisco/anyconnect/lib/libaccurl.so.4.8.0 "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/lib/libaccurl.so.4"
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# Install plugins.
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# We intentionally don't install the telemetry plugin here, because it tries to write to /opt.
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for plugin in libacwebhelper.so libvpnipsec.so; do
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install -Dm755 $plugin -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/plugins"
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done
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cp -R resources "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/resources"
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# Install some misc stuff.
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install -Dm444 AnyConnectProfile.xsd -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/profile"
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for file in ACManifestVPN.xml update.txt AnyConnectLocalPolicy.xsd; do
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install -Dm444 $file -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect"
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done
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# Install desktop file for vpnui.
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install -Dm644 resources/vpnui48.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/$pkgname.png"
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install -Dm644 resources/vpnui128.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/$pkgname.png"
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sed -i "s|^Exec=.*|Exec=$pkgname|g" com.cisco.anyconnect.gui.desktop
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install -Dm644 com.cisco.anyconnect.gui.desktop -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
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# Install license.
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for license in license.txt OpenSource.html; do
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install -Dm644 $license -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
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done
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# Install systemd unit for vpnagentd.
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install -Dm644 vpnagentd.service -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system"
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install -Dm755 "$srcdir/$pkgname.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname"
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# Install CA certificates.
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mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/.cisco/certificates/ca"
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# First, install our own system root.
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ln -s /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/tls-ca-bundle.pem "$pkgdir/opt/.cisco/certificates/ca/system-ca.pem"
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# Then, install Cisco's, because it doesn't actually trace to any of the trusted roots we have,
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# (thanks, VeriSign).
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install -Dm644 VeriSignClass3PublicPrimaryCertificationAuthority-G5.pem -t "$pkgdir/opt/.cisco/certificates/ca"
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# Install custom policy to disable auto updates,
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# so AnyConnect won't attempt to update itself as root,
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# and then run all over both itself and our packaging.
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#
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# NOTE: This may break some really quirky setups that require downloading files from the server,
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# but there's no other way around it that we could find.
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install -Dm644 "$srcdir/AnyConnectLocalPolicy.xml" -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect"
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}
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Scan history
| Scanned at (UTC) | Severity | Rules |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-17 00:27:14 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-16 00:03:17 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-15 00:25:31 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-14 00:27:57 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-13 00:19:54 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-12 00:25:17 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-11 00:19:22 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-10 00:22:44 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-09 00:04:09 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-08 00:18:08 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-07 00:30:15 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-06 00:17:06 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-05 00:16:27 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-04 00:03:13 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-03 00:15:47 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-02 00:02:31 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-09-01 00:11:19 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-31 00:19:57 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-30 00:04:14 | Low | 2 |
| 2026-08-29 00:29:17 | Low | 2 |