vanta-agent

MEDIUM

maintainer wim07101993 10 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (agent-downloads.vanta.com), which is not a general-purpose forge but specific to Vanta; while likely legitimate, the unverifiable executable payload presents a supply-chain risk if the domain were compromised.

Triggered rules

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:22 "${pkgver}-${_binname}.deb::https://agent-downloads.vanta.com/targets/versions/${pkgver}/${_binname}-amd64.deb"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (agent-downloads.vanta.com), which is not a general-purpose forge but specific to Vanta; while likely legitimate, the unverifiable executable payload presents a supply-chain risk if the domain were compromised.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: wim07101993
    
      2# Contributor: Michał Lisowski <lisu at riseup dot net>
    
      3# Contributor: Pierre Mavro <pmavro at qovery dot com>
    
      4# Contributor: Mesmer <ldepaulaf at gmail dot com
    
      5#
    
      6# Check for new Linux releases in: https://github.com/VantaInc/vanta-agent-scripts/blob/main/install-linux.sh
    
      7
    
      8_binname=vanta
    
      9_svcname=vanta-agent
    
      10
    
      11pkgname=vanta-agent
    
      12# https://app.vanta.com/downloads
    
      13pkgver=2.20.0
    
      14pkgrel=1
    
      15pkgdesc="Vanta agent"
    
      16arch=('x86_64')
    
      17url="https://www.vanta.com/"
    
      18depends=('systemd')
    
      19license=('custom:vanta')
    
      20install=$pkgname.install
    
      21source=(
    
      22    "${pkgver}-${_binname}.deb::https://agent-downloads.vanta.com/targets/versions/${pkgver}/${_binname}-amd64.deb"
    
      23    "${_svcname}.conf"
    
      24    "vanta-setup.sh"
    
      25)
    
      26sha256sums=('42e67e2b8757239619f2a2aa8093dc32b91b88aa45c2d1538636097fc4b63da6'
    
      27            '2d650c20f8cabb78d3c629c38d8eed3b15f0e3f9f0b96b68f67fbe5831b41307'
    
      28            '9c93408050135a85d874bc30346ba132a230704de5f0367548128207e923e70d')
    
      29
    
      30package() {
    
      31  echo "  -> Extracting the data.tar.gz..."
    
      32  tar -xzf data.tar.gz -C .
    
      33
    
      34  echo "  -> Moving stuff in place..."
    
      35  install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system/vanta.service "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system/$_svcname.service
    
      36  # systemd override for regular restart because of Agent instability
    
      37  install -Dm644 $_svcname.conf "$pkgdir"/etc/systemd/system/$_svcname.service.d/$_svcname.conf
    
      38  # changelog
    
      39  install -Dm644 usr/share/doc/vanta/changelog.gz "$pkgdir"/usr/share/doc/$_binname/changelog.gz
    
      40  # custom install script to create the conf file
    
      41  install -Dm755 "$srcdir/vanta-setup.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/vanta-setup"
    
      42  # vanta
    
      43  for i in var/vanta/* ; do
    
      44    install -Dm755 $i "$pkgdir"/$i
    
      45  done
    
      46
    
      47  # Create a symlink to vanta-cli in /usr/bin for easy access
    
      48  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      49  ln -s /var/vanta/vanta-cli "$pkgdir/usr/bin/vanta-cli"
    
      50}
    
      51

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-15 00:28
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 
 pkgname=vanta-agent
 # https://app.vanta.com/downloads
-pkgver=2.19.0
+pkgver=2.20.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Vanta agent"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     "${_svcname}.conf"
     "vanta-setup.sh"
 )
-sha256sums=('e2e708f2ce4697e9c116dcb2e59ba35a02db128887247782a70af6b9b39ff706'
+sha256sums=('42e67e2b8757239619f2a2aa8093dc32b91b88aa45c2d1538636097fc4b63da6'
             '2d650c20f8cabb78d3c629c38d8eed3b15f0e3f9f0b96b68f67fbe5831b41307'
             '9c93408050135a85d874bc30346ba132a230704de5f0367548128207e923e70d')
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 07:10:53	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2