amazon-ssm-agent-bin

maintainer drzee · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from an AWS S3 bucket, which is a non-standard host for Arch Linux packages; while AWS is a legitimate source, the unverifiable nature of the prebuilt binary from a third-party host introduces a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised or swapped.

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:13 source=(${pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/${pkgver}/debian_amd64/${pkgname%-bin}.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 binary from an AWS S3 bucket, which is a non-standard host for Arch Linux packages; while AWS is a legitimate source, the unverifiable nature of the prebuilt binary from a third-party host introduces a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised or swapped.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: drzee <info@drzee.net>
    
      2pkgname=amazon-ssm-agent-bin
    
      3pkgver=3.3.4793.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Amazon SSM Agent for managing EC2 Instances using the SSM APIs. See: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/systems-manager/ for details"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent"
    
      8license=('APACHE')
    
      9groups=()
    
      10depends=('glibc')
    
      11provides=("${pkgname%-bin}")
    
      12conflicts=("${pkgname%-bin}")
    
      13source=(${pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/${pkgver}/debian_amd64/${pkgname%-bin}.deb)
    
      14# Checksums
    
      15sha256sums=('e37b0328c3d7c5ea54769ec09aacfe6cbeb618748164bcad7ca1f6b28f3aa4da')
    
      16noextract=()
    
      17# We set options here to superseed the default makepkg.conf options. We dont whant debug build or strip debug info from the package. Its not relevant for a binary repackage of the upstream package.
    
      18options=(!debug !strip)
    
      19
    
      20prepare() {
    
      21  cd "$srcdir"
    
      22  tar -xf data.tar.gz
    
      23
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26
    
      27package() {
    
      28  cd "$srcdir"
    
      29
    
      30  install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/
    
      31  cp -R "${srcdir}"/usr/ "${pkgdir}"
    
      32
    
      33  install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/etc/amazon/
    
      34  cp -R "${srcdir}"/etc/amazon/ "${pkgdir}/etc/"
    
      35
    
      36  install -Dm644 \
    
      37      "$srcdir"/lib/systemd/system/amazon-ssm-agent.service \
    
      38      "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/systemd/system/amazon-ssm-agent.service
    
      39      
    
      40}
    
      41
    
      42

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-01 02:40
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: drzee <info@drzee.net>
 pkgname=amazon-ssm-agent-bin
-pkgver=3.3.4624.0
+pkgver=3.3.4793.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Amazon SSM Agent for managing EC2 Instances using the SSM APIs. See: https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/systems-manager/ for details"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 conflicts=("${pkgname%-bin}")
 source=(${pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::https://s3.amazonaws.com/ec2-downloads-windows/SSMAgent/${pkgver}/debian_amd64/${pkgname%-bin}.deb)
 # Checksums
-sha256sums=('7fb70ea6c0bdf94ce8ff0a338fb7c2dded4bc0e10f614368cb0d01ec4425b07a')
+sha256sums=('e37b0328c3d7c5ea54769ec09aacfe6cbeb618748164bcad7ca1f6b28f3aa4da')
 noextract=()
 # We set options here to superseed the default makepkg.conf options. We dont whant debug build or strip debug info from the package. Its not relevant for a binary repackage of the upstream package.
 options=(!debug !strip)

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 01:26:42	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-01 02:40:12	CLEAN	2
2026-06-20 16:03:41	CLEAN	2
2026-06-20 00:50:07	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-20 00:18:46	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-19 23:51:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-19 19:07:35	LOW	2
2026-06-18 18:04:49	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	MEDIUM	1