archibold

MEDIUM

maintainer orphaned 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a shell script from archibold.io (a personal/unofficial host) with sha256sums=('SKIP'), meaning no integrity verification whatsoever. This script is then installed as an executable in /usr/bin/. This is a genuine supply-chain risk: if archibold.io is compromised or the content changes, arbitrary code would be executed with elevated privileges on the target system. The use of 'sudo' inside the package() function is also non-standard and bad practice (makepkg already runs package() with fakeroot). The combination of an unverified shell script from a personal host being installed as a system binary is a textbook medium-severity supply-chain concern.

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:14 source=('https://archibold.io/sh/archibold')

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD downloads a shell script from archibold.io (a personal/unofficial host) with sha256sums=('SKIP'), meaning no integrity verification whatsoever. This script is then installed as an executable in /usr/bin/. This is a genuine supply-chain risk: if archibold.io is compromised or the content changes, arbitrary code would be executed with elevated privileges on the target system. The use of 'sudo' inside the package() function is also non-standard and bad practice (makepkg already runs package() with fakeroot). The combination of an unverified shell script from a personal host being installed as a system binary is a textbook medium-severity supply-chain concern.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Andrea Giammarchi (WebReflection)
    
      2# Maintainer on AUR : Andrei Pufu (Arthank)
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=archibold
    
      5pkgver=1.0.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='Making Arch Linux easier'
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url='http://archibold.io'
    
      10license=('GPL3')
    
      11provides=('archibold')
    
      12conflicts=('archibold')
    
      13options=('!strip')
    
      14source=('https://archibold.io/sh/archibold')
    
      15sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18
    
      19 sudo cp ./archibold /usr/bin/
    
      20 sudo chmod +x /usr/bin/archibold
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2