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Read 2026-10-22

hashicorp/vagrant: technical due diligence, read from its repository

What Borehole read in hashicorp/vagrant's code and history at dc55920: its licence, security advisories, releases, review practice, tests, dependencies and operations. Every finding cites the file and line it rests on. The full report also covers the team and asks the questions the code cannot answer.

DimensionRating
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenancestrong
Engineering Process & SDLC Maturitystrong
Product & Engineering Maturitynot assessable
Security & Reliability Posturestrong
Observability & Operationsnot assessable
Fit with the Acquirernot assessable

What the repository says

  • LICENSE:1: The licence is BUSL-1.1: source available, not open source
  • LICENSE: Relicensed: MIT → BUSL-1.1 (2023-08-10)

Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance

strong
01.6

.ci/.ci-utility-files/common.sh is 3,411 lines, 68× this codebase's median file

adequate

The median source file here is 50 lines. 5 files exceed 1,000 lines, the largest being 3,411. Size is not a defect on its own — some problems genuinely live in one place — but these are where merge conflicts, review fatigue and single-owner knowledge concentrate, and they are the first thing that slows an inheriting engineer down.

Evidence
.ci/.ci-utility-files/common.sh:1 — 3,411 lines (68× median)
lib/vagrant/environment.rb:1 — 1,231 lines (24× median)
lib/vagrant/errors.rb:1 — 1,175 lines (23× median)
plugins/kernel_v2/config/vm.rb:1 — 1,066 lines (21× median)
plugins/providers/virtualbox/driver/version_5_0.rb:1 — 1,025 lines (20× median)

Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity

strong

No finding.

Product & Engineering Maturity

not assessable

Not rated: only 9 of 19 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.

Security & Reliability Posture

strong
05.66

The licence is BUSL-1.1: source available, not open source

adequate

LICENSE grants BUSL-1.1: source available, not open source; production use restricted until the change date. The reading comes from the licence's own title and clauses. Whether the terms fit the buyer's intended use, and whether any paid licence transfers with the code, is a question for counsel and the licensor.

Evidence
LICENSE:1 — 92 lines, BUSL-1.1
05.60

Relicensed: MIT → BUSL-1.1 (2023-08-10)

adequate

The root licence changed 1 time(s). The latest terms restrict what users, hosts or a buyer may do in ways the earlier ones did not. Code taken under the old terms stays under them, so both matter in diligence.

Evidence
LICENSE — MIT from 2010-03-08
LICENSE — BUSL-1.1 from 2023-08-10
05.65

2 advisories against this project in the last 24 months

adequate

The newest was published on 2025-07-02. A project that publishes advisories is telling its users about its fixes, and the count and pace say how much security work it carries. Whether 1 of them are fixed in the code you ship could not be told from this history: its version is only known to be at least 2.4.9. Answer lives in: the release you run, set against each fixed version. The record is incomplete: NVD: 3 records name vagrant with nothing tying them to this repository (CVE-2022-25962, CVE-2025-34075, CVE-2026-7373).

Evidence
2025-07-02: GHSA-hqp6-mjw3-f586 (moderate), fixed in 2.4.7: HashiCorp Vagrant has code injection vulnerability through default synced folders
2024-10-29: CVE-2024-10228 (low): The Vagrant VMWare Utility Windows installer targeted a custom location with a non-protected path that could be modified by an unprivileged user, introducing po

Observability & Operations

not assessable

Not rated: only 5 of 16 checks could reach a conclusion here; the rest do not apply to this repository or could not read it.

Fit with the Acquirer

not assessable

Not rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.

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