chef-workstation

maintainer tmoore · 10 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from an official but non-whitelisted host (packages.chef.io), which is a supply-chain risk if the source is unverifiable or silently swapped, though it uses a fixed version and checksum.

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://packages.chef.io/repos/apt/stable/ubuntu/22.04/chef-workstation_$pkgver-1_amd64.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from an official but non-whitelisted host (packages.chef.io), which is a supply-chain risk if the source is unverifiable or silently swapped, though it uses a fixed version and checksum.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Tom Moore <middleagedman@users.noreply.github.com>
    
      2
    
      3# Contributor: Paweł Otlewski <pawel@idkcloud.com>
    
      4# Contributor: Томас <70m4c@70m4c.su>
    
      5# Contributor: Marc Paradise <marc.paradise@gmail.com>
    
      6
    
      7# shellcheck disable=SC2148 # Ignore lack of shebang
    
      8# shellcheck disable=SC2034 # Ignore "unused" PKGBUILD variables
    
      9# shellcheck disable=SC2154 # Ignore "unassigned" references to $srcdir and $pkgdir
    
      10
    
      11pkgname=chef-workstation
    
      12pkgver=25.14.2
    
      13pkgrel=1
    
      14pkgdesc="Chef's developer toolkit that includes Infra, InSpec, Habitat, and tools like knife."
    
      15arch=('x86_64')
    
      16url="https://www.chef.io/downloads/tools/workstation"
    
      17license=('custom:Chef EULA')
    
      18depends=()
    
      19conflicts=(chef-dk chef chef-solo cinc)
    
      20replaces=('chef-dk')
    
      21source=("https://packages.chef.io/repos/apt/stable/ubuntu/22.04/chef-workstation_$pkgver-1_amd64.deb")
    
      22sha256sums=('34344a6ed3ec71151b0a4b5774cc05d81f0f3792a4d4d659afda2f5a728d6417')
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  depends=('libxcrypt-compat')
    
      26
    
      27  cd "$srcdir" || exit 1
    
      28  bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      29
    
      30  install -Dm644 "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      31
    
      32  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      33  binaries="berks chef chef-analyze chef-apply chef-cli chef-client chef-resource-inspector chef-run chef-service-manager chef-shell chef-solo chef-vault chef-windows-service chef-zero cookstyle delivery fauxhai foodcritic hab inspec kitchen knife mixlib-install ohai stove"
    
      34  for binary in $binaries; do
    
      35    ln -s "/opt/$pkgname/bin/$binary" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/" || error_exit "Cannot link $binary to /usr/bin"
    
      36  done
    
      37
    
      38  chown -Rh 0:0 "$pkgdir"
    
      39  chmod -R 755 "$pkgdir/opt"
    
      40}
    
      41

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-20 16:03
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # shellcheck disable=SC2154 # Ignore "unassigned" references to $srcdir and $pkgdir
 
 pkgname=chef-workstation
-pkgver=25.13.7
+pkgver=25.14.2
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Chef's developer toolkit that includes Infra, InSpec, Habitat, and tools like knife."
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 conflicts=(chef-dk chef chef-solo cinc)
 replaces=('chef-dk')
 source=("https://packages.chef.io/repos/apt/stable/ubuntu/22.04/chef-workstation_$pkgver-1_amd64.deb")
-sha256sums=('d4609acda0a5f1a19b1c4eda5a6b39a4af96ba150264bd8a471ebfd1bea4b627')
+sha256sums=('34344a6ed3ec71151b0a4b5774cc05d81f0f3792a4d4d659afda2f5a728d6417')
 
 package() {
   depends=('libxcrypt-compat')

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 01:19:40	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-20 16:03:41	CLEAN	2
2026-06-20 00:50:07	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-20 00:18:46	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-19 23:51:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-19 19:07:35	LOW	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	MEDIUM	1