ca-certificates-cacert

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

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads CA certificate files from the official cacert.org domain, which is the project's own infrastructure; these are static data files, not executables, and the worst case of a swapped source is trust in a malicious CA, which is a moderate but not severe risk given the context of certificate authorities in the PKI ecosystem.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads CA certificate files from the official cacert.org domain, which is the project's own infrastructure; these are static data files, not executables, and the worst case of a swapped source is trust in a malicious CA, which is a moderate but not severe risk given the context of certificate authorities in the PKI ecosystem.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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=("CAcert.org_root_X0F.crt::http://www.cacert.org/certs/root_X0F.crt"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Nicolas Lorin <androw95220@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Jakob Gahde <j5lx@fmail.co.uk>
    
      3# Contributor: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <jan.steffens@gmail.com>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=ca-certificates-cacert
    
      6pkgver=20250125
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="CAcert.org root certificates"
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10url="https://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3"
    
      11license=('custom:RDL')
    
      12depends=('ca-certificates-utils')
    
      13source=("CAcert.org_root_X0F.crt::http://www.cacert.org/certs/root_X0F.crt"
    
      14        "CAcert_Class3Root_x14E228.crt::http://www.cacert.org/certs/CAcert_Class3Root_x14E228.crt"
    
      15        "LICENSE")
    
      16sha512sums=('f04eb3ff2a1741970dbc3e66e5fcd8f22dd7a66384d91bd61d82522958599d4bd85476125ef092ece1f9ee7868d87802ed965bbacb59f9cf467fb627013fe9c7'
    
      17            'c888b58d8f2ba64cbbc281dddfff8b3fb5e4f6059400ad4680451f1c4705b67fc337df8a488492e8f251128cc70fe988816e1cd02b8b1fc894c0c69d2727dc5e'
    
      18            'ad140136e3529f67d0a2e5ac19d9a97ee80c5305aa793d663f68dd7ab4fdaf711490a78b49172f0c1414e2d7ebfe3d683e649bae047980bfacd7d4a2b7f6d172')
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      22
    
      23  install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ca-certificates/trust-source/anchors" *.crt
    
      24  install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      25}
    
      26

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2