chakracore-bin

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball (containing an executable 'ch' and shared library 'libChakraCore.so') from 'chakra-core.shortdev.de', which is not the official Microsoft/chakra-core GitHub releases infrastructure. The official release artifacts for ChakraCore are hosted at github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/releases. This third-party mirror/redirect host introduces a genuine supply-chain risk: if the host is compromised or controlled by a malicious actor, the prebuilt binaries (which are installed as an executable and a shared library) could execute arbitrary code on the user's system. The SHA256 checksum provides some protection against in-transit tampering but does not protect against the host serving a malicious file that matches the recorded hash (if the hash was recorded from the same untrusted host). This is a textbook medium-severity supply-chain concern: executed binaries from a non-official 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:15 source=("https://chakra-core.shortdev.de/releases/v$pkgver/cc_linux_x64_1_11_24.tar.gz")

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 prebuilt binary tarball (containing an executable 'ch' and shared library 'libChakraCore.so') from 'chakra-core.shortdev.de', which is not the official Microsoft/chakra-core GitHub releases infrastructure. The official release artifacts for ChakraCore are hosted at github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore/releases. This third-party mirror/redirect host introduces a genuine supply-chain risk: if the host is compromised or controlled by a malicious actor, the prebuilt binaries (which are installed as an executable and a shared library) could execute arbitrary code on the user's system. The SHA256 checksum provides some protection against in-transit tampering but does not protect against the host serving a malicious file that matches the recorded hash (if the hash was recorded from the same untrusted host). This is a textbook medium-severity supply-chain concern: executed binaries from a non-official host.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: eggbertx <eggbertxdev at gmail dot com>
    
      2# Previous maintainer: Felix Golatofski <contact at xdfr dot de>
    
      3# Contributor: michaelchou <michaeljchou at the hotmail domain which is .com>
    
      4
    
      5_pkgname=chakracore
    
      6pkgname=chakracore-bin
    
      7pkgver=1.11.24
    
      8pkgrel=2
    
      9pkgdesc='ChakraCore is an open source Javascript engine with a C API. This is the pre-built binaries from Microsoft.'
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url='https://github.com/chakra-core/ChakraCore'
    
      12license=('MIT')
    
      13provides=('libChakraCore.so' 'ch')
    
      14conflicts=('chakracore-git' 'chakracore')
    
      15source=("https://chakra-core.shortdev.de/releases/v$pkgver/cc_linux_x64_1_11_24.tar.gz")
    
      16sha256sums=('939283618139D6C4223842D79C176C3691296BCE5368D54CB9805616A94EB605')
    
      17
    
      18_dir="ChakraCoreFiles"
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21  install -Dm755 "$srcdir/$_dir/bin/ch" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ch"
    
      22
    
      23  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/$_dir/lib/libChakraCore.so" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/libChakraCore.so"
    
      24
    
      25  for file in $srcdir/$_dir/include/*; do
    
      26    install -Dm644 "$file" "$pkgdir/usr/include/$(basename $file)"
    
      27  done
    
      28
    
      29  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/$_dir/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$_pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      30}
    
      31

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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