cisco-anyconnect

maintainer crabvk · 19 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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, …).

PKGBUILD:27 "https://helpdesk.ugent.be/vpn/download/anyconnect-linux64-$pkgver-predeploy-k9.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Vyacheslav Konovalov <🦀vk@protonmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Posi <posi1981@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Mikhail Velichko <efklid@gmail.com>
    
      4# Contributor: Michael Duncan Hammond <mhammond9@radford.edu>
    
      5# Contributor: K900 <me@0upti.me>
    
      6
    
      7pkgname=cisco-anyconnect
    
      8pkgver=4.10.08029
    
      9pkgrel=2
    
      10pkgdesc='Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client'
    
      11url='https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/security/anyconnect-secure-mobility-client-v4-x/model.html'
    
      12arch=('x86_64')
    
      13depends=('libxml2' 'ca-certificates' 'libxml2-legacy')
    
      14optdepends=(
    
      15    'hicolor-icon-theme: required by desktop shortcuts'
    
      16    'gtk2: required by vpnui'
    
      17    'glib2: required by vpnui'
    
      18    'gtk3: required by acwebhelper'
    
      19    'webkit2gtk: required by acwebhelper'
    
      20)
    
      21license=('custom')
    
      22
    
      23# Stripping the binaries trips some sort of an integrity check inside vpnagentd.
    
      24options=('!strip')
    
      25
    
      26source=(
    
      27    "https://helpdesk.ugent.be/vpn/download/anyconnect-linux64-$pkgver-predeploy-k9.tar.gz"
    
      28    'AnyConnectLocalPolicy.xml'
    
      29    "$pkgname.sh"
    
      30)
    
      31
    
      32sha512sums=(
    
      33    '4ab4de736fc03f1261ee417a0afeb277bfcaca78b66671021d3ffba9640af352d531a6a32c8ea92e69ca0bf862ba0b96e5e5a67df86fb541c6f3ddad7c054f45'
    
      34    '4b6af68475ec427e51d0811b07637b132eb7a49b70de4142ea1f11f6c96c330c1cd368c178db86116457fb9a3eea1800873d3a1f03a0560fbec6fa63d88dc8ce'
    
      35    'a5de5f992f81c60bae9bcf7c784d3e335f1a709d76b363ec7d6d0e1846e2e23481b50dcbe7826755a3911a5f8fb53432a3d4cff1cc4bc5a13f9aedcf9a4c8c99'
    
      36)
    
      37
    
      38package() {
    
      39    cd "anyconnect-linux64-$pkgver/vpn"
    
      40
    
      41    # Install binaries.
    
      42    for binary in vpnagentd vpn vpndownloader vpndownloader-cli manifesttool_vpn acinstallhelper \
    
      43        vpnui acwebhelper load_tun.sh; do
    
      44        install -Dm755 $binary -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin"
    
      45    done
    
      46
    
      47    # Install libs.
    
      48    for lib in libvpnagentutilities.so libvpncommon.so libvpncommoncrypt.so libvpnapi.so \
    
      49        libacruntime.so libacciscossl.so libacciscocrypto.so cfom.so libboost_date_time.so \
    
      50        libboost_filesystem.so libboost_regex.so libboost_system.so libboost_thread.so \
    
      51        libboost_signals.so libboost_chrono.so libaccurl.so.4.8.0; do
    
      52        install -Dm755 $lib -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/lib"
    
      53    done
    
      54
    
      55    # The installer copies all the other symlinks, but creates this one for some reason,
    
      56    # so lets just create it ourselves.
    
      57    ln -s /opt/cisco/anyconnect/lib/libaccurl.so.4.8.0 "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/lib/libaccurl.so.4"
    
      58
    
      59    # Install plugins.
    
      60    # We intentionally don't install the telemetry plugin here, because it tries to write to /opt.
    
      61    for plugin in libacwebhelper.so libvpnipsec.so; do
    
      62        install -Dm755 $plugin -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/plugins"
    
      63    done
    
      64
    
      65    cp -R resources "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/resources"
    
      66
    
      67    # Install some misc stuff.
    
      68    install -Dm444 AnyConnectProfile.xsd -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect/profile"
    
      69
    
      70    for file in ACManifestVPN.xml update.txt AnyConnectLocalPolicy.xsd; do
    
      71        install -Dm444 $file -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect"
    
      72    done
    
      73
    
      74    # Install desktop file for vpnui.
    
      75    install -Dm644 resources/vpnui48.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/$pkgname.png"
    
      76    install -Dm644 resources/vpnui128.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/$pkgname.png"
    
      77
    
      78    sed -i "s|^Exec=.*|Exec=$pkgname|g" com.cisco.anyconnect.gui.desktop
    
      79    install -Dm644 com.cisco.anyconnect.gui.desktop -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
    
      80
    
      81    # Install license.
    
      82    for license in license.txt OpenSource.html; do
    
      83        install -Dm644 $license -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      84    done
    
      85
    
      86    # Install systemd unit for vpnagentd.
    
      87    install -Dm644 vpnagentd.service -t "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system"
    
      88
    
      89    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/$pkgname.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname"
    
      90
    
      91    # Install CA certificates.
    
      92    mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/.cisco/certificates/ca"
    
      93
    
      94    # First, install our own system root.
    
      95    ln -s /etc/ca-certificates/extracted/tls-ca-bundle.pem "$pkgdir/opt/.cisco/certificates/ca/system-ca.pem"
    
      96
    
      97    # Then, install Cisco's, because it doesn't actually trace to any of the trusted roots we have,
    
      98    # (thanks, VeriSign).
    
      99    install -Dm644 VeriSignClass3PublicPrimaryCertificationAuthority-G5.pem -t "$pkgdir/opt/.cisco/certificates/ca"
    
      100
    
      101    # Install custom policy to disable auto updates,
    
      102    # so AnyConnect won't attempt to update itself as root,
    
      103    # and then run all over both itself and our packaging.
    
      104    #
    
      105    # NOTE: This may break some really quirky setups that require downloading files from the server,
    
      106    # but there's no other way around it that we could find.
    
      107    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/AnyConnectLocalPolicy.xml" -t "$pkgdir/opt/cisco/anyconnect"
    
      108}
    
      109

Scan history

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2