artifactory-cpp-ce

MEDIUM

maintainer mikezackles 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary zip archive of JFrog Artifactory from bintray.com (the official JFrog distribution channel at the time this PKGBUILD was written) and installs it directly into /opt/artifactory. Bintray was JFrog's official distribution platform before it was shut down in May 2021, so this was a legitimate vendor host. However, since Bintray is now defunct, the URL no longer resolves to the original content and the sha256sum check provides the only integrity guarantee — but only one of the four sources has a real checksum (the others are SKIP). The package installs a prebuilt Java application server with a systemd service, meaning the downloaded binary runs with system privileges. The combination of: (1) a now-defunct distribution host that could theoretically be resurrected or redirected, (2) three auxiliary files with no integrity checks, and (3) direct installation of a prebuilt binary that runs as a service, justifies keeping this at medium severity. It is not clearly malicious, but the supply-chain risk from a dead host and missing checksums on service-related files is a real 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=("jfrog-artifactory-cpp-ce-${pkgver}.zip::https://bintray.com/api/ui/download/jfrog/artifactory/jfrog-artifactory-cpp-ce-${pkgver}.zip"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary zip archive of JFrog Artifactory from bintray.com (the official JFrog distribution channel at the time this PKGBUILD was written) and installs it directly into /opt/artifactory. Bintray was JFrog's official distribution platform before it was shut down in May 2021, so this was a legitimate vendor host. However, since Bintray is now defunct, the URL no longer resolves to the original content and the sha256sum check provides the only integrity guarantee — but only one of the four sources has a real checksum (the others are SKIP). The package installs a prebuilt Java application server with a systemd service, meaning the downloaded binary runs with system privileges. The combination of: (1) a now-defunct distribution host that could theoretically be resurrected or redirected, (2) three auxiliary files with no integrity checks, and (3) direct installation of a prebuilt binary that runs as a service, justifies keeping this at medium severity. It is not clearly malicious, but the supply-chain risk from a dead host and missing checksums on service-related files is a real concern.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: mikezackles@gmail.com
    
      2# Contributor: Michael J. Pento <mjpento@verizon.net>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=artifactory-cpp-ce
    
      5pkgver=6.16.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='Artifactory is an advanced Binary Repository Manager for use by build tools, dependency management tools and build servers'
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url="https://bintray.com/jfrog/product/JFrog-Artifactory-Cpp-CE/view"
    
      10license=('GPLv3')
    
      11depends=('java-runtime-headless' 'net-tools' 'bash')
    
      12conflicts=('artifactory-oss')
    
      13install="$pkgname.install"
    
      14source=("jfrog-artifactory-cpp-ce-${pkgver}.zip::https://bintray.com/api/ui/download/jfrog/artifactory/jfrog-artifactory-cpp-ce-${pkgver}.zip"
    
      15        'artifactory.service'
    
      16        'artifactory.conf'
    
      17        'artifactory.default')
    
      18sha256sums=('df28f01a3615cb12d556a255f49f36892e4db23133c63049a230aa6f41bd6372'
    
      19            'SKIP'
    
      20            'SKIP'
    
      21            'SKIP')
    
      22options=('!strip')
    
      23PKGEXT='.pkg.tar'
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26  local artdir="/opt/artifactory"
    
      27
    
      28  pushd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      29  rm -f bin/*.{exe,bat}
    
      30  rm -f bin/{install,uninstall}Service.sh
    
      31  rm -f bin/artifactoryctl
    
      32  rm -f tomcat/bin/*.bat
    
      33  rm -f COPYING* *.txt *.html
    
      34  popd
    
      35
    
      36  install -d "$pkgdir$artdir"
    
      37  cp -r "$pkgname-$pkgver"/* "$pkgdir$artdir"
    
      38  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/artifactory.conf" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/artifactory.conf"
    
      39  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/artifactory.default" "$pkgdir$artdir/bin"
    
      40  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/artifactory.service" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/artifactory.service"
    
      41  install -d "$pkgdir$artdir/run"
    
      42}
    
      43

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2