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.
| Dimension | Rating |
|---|---|
| Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance | strong |
| Engineering Process & SDLC Maturity | strong |
| Product & Engineering Maturity | not assessable |
| Security & Reliability Posture | strong |
| Observability & Operations | not assessable |
| Fit with the Acquirer | not assessable |
What the repository says
LICENSE:1: The licence is BUSL-1.1: source available, not open sourceLICENSE: Relicensed: MIT → BUSL-1.1 (2023-08-10)
Architecture & Codebase — including AI provenance
strong.ci/.ci-utility-files/common.sh is 3,411 lines, 68× this codebase's median file
adequateThe 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.
.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
strongNo finding.
Product & Engineering Maturity
not assessableNot 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
strongThe licence is BUSL-1.1: source available, not open source
adequateLICENSE 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.
LICENSE:1 — 92 lines, BUSL-1.1 |
Relicensed: MIT → BUSL-1.1 (2023-08-10)
adequateThe 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.
2 advisories against this project in the last 24 months
adequateThe 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).
| 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 assessableNot 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 assessableNot rated: structurally not assessable from a repository.
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