vanta-agent

MEDIUM

maintainer wim07101993 9 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-standard host (agent-downloads.vanta.com) which is not a common code host and hosts an executable agent; while likely legitimate, the unverifiable nature of the binary artifact from a proprietary source constitutes a supply-chain risk.

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-standard host (agent-downloads.vanta.com) which is not a common code host and hosts an executable agent; while likely legitimate, the unverifiable nature of the binary artifact from a proprietary source constitutes a supply-chain risk.

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=2.18.0
    
      14pkgrel=2
    
      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=('0e6e584896237ad11ddaa5bd36de8d1b51a71ae93d84c95dd6b9b0ca7dc3f47d'
    
      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 @ 2026-09-02 00:02
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@
 
 pkgname=vanta-agent
 # https://app.vanta.com/downloads
-pkgver=2.16.1
-pkgrel=7
+pkgver=2.18.0
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Vanta agent"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://www.vanta.com/"
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     "${_svcname}.conf"
     "vanta-setup.sh"
 )
-sha256sums=('bb8eccb929b63dc7c7137fd35716a69d5e20b616ae200a89ae519c6d2d6cf7f1'
+sha256sums=('0e6e584896237ad11ddaa5bd36de8d1b51a71ae93d84c95dd6b9b0ca7dc3f47d'
             '2d650c20f8cabb78d3c629c38d8eed3b15f0e3f9f0b96b68f67fbe5831b41307'
             '9c93408050135a85d874bc30346ba132a230704de5f0367548128207e923e70d')
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 09:50:35	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2