version, update, env and the bare command

vulnetix with no command

vulnetix

Runs an authentication health check. Each source is checked against the API in turn: VULNETIX_API_KEY + VULNETIX_ORG_ID, VVD_ORG + VVD_SECRET, ./.vulnetix/credentials.json, $HOME/.vulnetix/credentials.json and the netrc entry, followed by the always-available community fallback. Each line ends with a check mark and the organisation, a cross and the error, or not set / not found.

It does not look at VULNETIX_API_TOKEN, keychain-held secrets or VULNETIX_CREDENTIALS_DIR. vulnetix auth status and vulnetix auth verify cover those.

version

vulnetix version            # version, commit, build date, Go version and module versions
vulnetix version --short    # the bare version, e.g. 3.154.0
vulnetix --version          # the same as --short

update

vulnetix update

Checks the latest GitHub release and, if it is newer, replaces this binary: the release asset for this OS and architecture is downloaded next to the binary and renamed over it. A binary in $GOBIN, $GOPATH/bin or ~/go/bin is updated with go install github.com/vulnetix/cli/v3@latest instead. A source build (version containing -dev, or no commit stamped) is refused. Prints Already up to date (vX). when there is nothing newer. The download is not checked against checksums.txt. Under Homebrew or Scoop, use the package manager. See Install.

env

vulnetix env
vulnetix env -o json

Prints what the CLI detects about where it runs: CLI version, platform (cli, github, gitlab, azure, bitbucket, jenkins, kubernetes, podman, docker), OS and architecture, shell, the git branch, commit, dirty state and root, the package managers and manifests found in the current directory, and the scan memory file. -o json prints the same as JSON; the Pix plugin reads it.

Platform	Detected from
github	GITHUB_ACTIONS=true or GITHUB_RUN_ID
gitlab	GITLAB_CI=true or CI_JOB_ID
azure	TF_BUILD=True, AZURE_HTTP_USER_AGENT or SYSTEM_TEAMFOUNDATIONCOLLECTIONURI
bitbucket	BITBUCKET_BUILD_NUMBER or BITBUCKET_COMMIT
jenkins	JENKINS_URL or BUILD_NUMBER
kubernetes	KUBERNETES_SERVICE_HOST or KUBERNETES_PORT
podman	container=podman or PODMAN_SYSTEMD_UNIT
docker	/.dockerenv or DOCKER_CONTAINER
cli	none of the above

The platform decides whether update checks run (only on cli) and how pipeline context is attributed to uploaded results.