diff --git a/apiserver/getcachedvhdimages.go b/apiserver/getcachedvhdimages.go
index 20f2b0c28e1..d16c6ae6d89 100644
--- a/apiserver/getcachedvhdimages.go
+++ b/apiserver/getcachedvhdimages.go
@@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ const (
 )
 
 type CachedOnVHD struct {
-	CachedFromManifest   map[string]datamodel.ProcessedManifest   `json:"cached_from_manifest"`
-	CachedFromComponents map[string]datamodel.ProcessedComponents `json:"cached_from_components"`
+	CachedFromManifest   map[string]datamodel.ProcessedManifest `json:"cached_from_manifest"`
+	CachedFromComponents map[string]datamodel.ContainerImage    `json:"cached_from_components"`
 }
 
 // GetCachedVersionsOnVHD endpoint for getting the current versions of components cached on the vhd.
diff --git a/pkg/agent/bakerapi.go b/pkg/agent/bakerapi.go
index fc8f63a93e7..b1f32f14bd5 100644
--- a/pkg/agent/bakerapi.go
+++ b/pkg/agent/bakerapi.go
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ type AgentBaker interface {
 	GetNodeBootstrapping(ctx context.Context, config *datamodel.NodeBootstrappingConfiguration) (*datamodel.NodeBootstrapping, error)
 	GetLatestSigImageConfig(sigConfig datamodel.SIGConfig, distro datamodel.Distro, envInfo *datamodel.EnvironmentInfo) (*datamodel.SigImageConfig, error)
 	GetDistroSigImageConfig(sigConfig datamodel.SIGConfig, envInfo *datamodel.EnvironmentInfo) (map[datamodel.Distro]datamodel.SigImageConfig, error)
-	GetCachedVersionsOnVHD() (map[string]datamodel.ProcessedManifest, map[string]datamodel.ProcessedComponents, error)
+	GetCachedVersionsOnVHD() (map[string]datamodel.ProcessedManifest, map[string]datamodel.ContainerImage, error)
 }
 
 type agentBakerImpl struct {
@@ -176,6 +176,6 @@ func findSIGImageConfig(sigConfig datamodel.SIGAzureEnvironmentSpecConfig, distr
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (agentBaker *agentBakerImpl) GetCachedVersionsOnVHD() (map[string]datamodel.ProcessedManifest, map[string]datamodel.ProcessedComponents, error) {
+func (agentBaker *agentBakerImpl) GetCachedVersionsOnVHD() (map[string]datamodel.ProcessedManifest, map[string]datamodel.ContainerImage, error) {
 	return datamodel.CachedFromManifest, datamodel.CachedFromComponents, nil
 }
diff --git a/pkg/agent/datamodel/helper.go b/pkg/agent/datamodel/helper.go
index 818c73eedfb..d048afa78f9 100644
--- a/pkg/agent/datamodel/helper.go
+++ b/pkg/agent/datamodel/helper.go
@@ -105,12 +105,18 @@ func trimEOF(data []byte) []byte {
 	return data
 }
 
-func processDownloadURL(downloadURL string) string {
+func processDownloadURL(downloadURL string) (string, error) {
 	// example URL "downloadURL": "mcr.microsoft.com/oss/kubernetes/autoscaler/addon-resizer:*",
 	// getting the data between the last / and the last :
 	parts := strings.Split(downloadURL, "/")
+	if len(parts) == 0 || len(parts[len(parts)-1]) == 0 {
+		return "", errors.New("downloadURL is not in the expected format")
+	}
 	lastPart := parts[len(parts)-1]
+
 	component := strings.Split(lastPart, ":")
-	componentName := component[0]
-	return componentName
+	if len(component) == 0 || len(component[0]) == 0 {
+		return "", errors.New("downloadURL is not in the expected format")
+	}
+	return component[0], nil
 }
diff --git a/pkg/agent/datamodel/sig_config.go b/pkg/agent/datamodel/sig_config.go
index f7b6f48e342..d85ba0e9e86 100644
--- a/pkg/agent/datamodel/sig_config.go
+++ b/pkg/agent/datamodel/sig_config.go
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ const (
 
 //nolint:gochecknoglobals
 var (
-	CachedFromComponents = make(map[string]ProcessedComponents)
+	CachedFromComponents = make(map[string]ContainerImage)
 	CachedFromManifest   = make(map[string]ProcessedManifest)
 )
 
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ type SigImageConfig struct {
 	SigImageConfigTemplate
 	SubscriptionID       string
 	CachedFromManifest   map[string]ProcessedManifest
-	CachedFromComponents map[string]ProcessedComponents
+	CachedFromComponents map[string]ContainerImage
 }
 
 // WithOptions converts a SigImageConfigTemplate to SigImageConfig instance via function opts.
@@ -1001,7 +1001,7 @@ type PrefetchOptimizations struct {
 	Binaries []string
 }
 
-type ProcessedComponents struct {
+type ContainerImage struct {
 	MultiArchVersions     []string
 	Amd64OnlyVersions     []string
 	PrefetchOptimizations PrefetchOptimizations
@@ -1018,8 +1018,11 @@ func getCachedVersionsFromComponentsJSON(componentsFilePath string) {
 	}
 
 	for _, image := range components.ContainerImages {
-		componentName := processDownloadURL(image.DownloadURL)
-		processed := ProcessedComponents{
+		componentName, err := processDownloadURL(image.DownloadURL)
+		if err != nil {
+			panic(err)
+		}
+		processed := ContainerImage{
 			MultiArchVersions: image.MultiArchVersions,
 			Amd64OnlyVersions: image.Amd64OnlyVersions,
 		}