bit4id-pki-manager

maintainer s.pantaleev · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary .deb package (libbit4xpki) from repository.infonotary.com, which is a Bulgarian Certificate Authority / PKI vendor site rather than the primary Bit4ID vendor host (bit4id.com). This is a third-party redistribution point for an executed binary, not the canonical upstream source. The package installs application binaries directly into the system. While infonotary.com is a real CA/PKI company and the host appears to be a legitimate mirror/distribution point for Bit4ID middleware, it is not the primary vendor host, creating a supply-chain risk if that host is compromised. An md5sum is provided but MD5 is cryptographically weak. The concern is real but not clearly malicious — this fits the medium category: an executed binary from a non-primary/unofficial host.

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:21 source=('https://repository.infonotary.com/ra/Middleware/Bit4id/Linux/'$_file_name)

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary .deb package (libbit4xpki) from repository.infonotary.com, which is a Bulgarian Certificate Authority / PKI vendor site rather than the primary Bit4ID vendor host (bit4id.com). This is a third-party redistribution point for an executed binary, not the canonical upstream source. The package installs application binaries directly into the system. While infonotary.com is a real CA/PKI company and the host appears to be a legitimate mirror/distribution point for Bit4ID middleware, it is not the primary vendor host, creating a supply-chain risk if that host is compromised. An md5sum is provided but MD5 is cryptographically weak. The concern is real but not clearly malicious — this fits the medium category: an executed binary from a non-primary/unofficial host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Slavi Pantaleev <slavi at devture.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=bit4id-pki-manager
    
      4pkgver=1.4.10.682
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Bit4ID PKI Manager application"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8license=('unknown')
    
      9url="http://www.bit4id.com/"
    
      10options=('!strip')
    
      11md5sums=('bee113c3dfeb52b805fe211739c697a8')
    
      12optdepends=(
    
      13	'bit4id-ipki: Bit4ID Universal Middleware (Smart Card driver)'
    
      14	'bit4id-xpki: Bit4ID Universal Middleware (Smart Card driver)'
    
      15)
    
      16
    
      17# Goes from `X.Y.Z.A` to `X.Y.Z-A`, to match file names on the source server
    
      18pkgver_with_dash=$(echo "${pkgver}" | sed 's/\.\([0-9]\+\)$/-\1/')
    
      19_file_name='libbit4xpki-'$pkgver_with_dash'-bit4id-user.'$CARCH'.deb'
    
      20
    
      21source=('https://repository.infonotary.com/ra/Middleware/Bit4id/Linux/'$_file_name)
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24	ar -xv $_file_name || return 1
    
      25	tar -xvf data.tar.xz -C $pkgdir || return 1
    
      26
    
      27	# Remove drivers. They are packaged separately (as `bit4id-xpki`).
    
      28	rm -rf $pkgdir/usr/lib/bit4id
    
      29	rm -rf $pkgdir/usr/share/bit4id/ccid
    
      30}
    
      31

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