drupalconsole

maintainer sanduhrs · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a PHP installer script from drupalconsole.com/installer — the official Drupal Console project website — and installs it as an executable binary at /usr/bin/drupal. While drupalconsole.com is the legitimate upstream vendor site (not a personal or unofficial host), the concern is real: this is a single-file executable script fetched directly from a live URL on a non-forge host with no versioned path (the URL is just /installer, not pinned to a specific release artifact). If the domain were compromised or the file silently replaced, the sha512sum would catch it — but only if the checksum itself was captured from a trustworthy state. The sha512sum is present and non-trivial, which mitigates the risk somewhat. The pattern (vendor-hosted installer script, executed directly) is a legitimate medium supply-chain concern: it's an executed artifact from a non-standard host with no versioned URL, even if the domain is the official project site. Not clearly malicious, but not clean either.

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=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver//_/-}"::"https://drupalconsole.com/installer")

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 a PHP installer script from drupalconsole.com/installer — the official Drupal Console project website — and installs it as an executable binary at /usr/bin/drupal. While drupalconsole.com is the legitimate upstream vendor site (not a personal or unofficial host), the concern is real: this is a single-file executable script fetched directly from a live URL on a non-forge host with no versioned path (the URL is just /installer, not pinned to a specific release artifact). If the domain were compromised or the file silently replaced, the sha512sum would catch it — but only if the checksum itself was captured from a trustworthy state. The sha512sum is present and non-trivial, which mitigates the risk somewhat. The pattern (vendor-hosted installer script, executed directly) is a legitimate medium supply-chain concern: it's an executed artifact from a non-standard host with no versioned URL, even if the domain is the official project site. Not clearly malicious, but not clean either.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Stefan Auditor <stefan.auditor@erdfisch.de>
    
      2# Please report issues at https://github.com/sanduhrs/arch-aur-drupalconsole
    
      3
    
      4_pkgname=drupalconsole
    
      5pkgname=${_pkgname}
    
      6pkgver=1.9.10
    
      7pkgrel=2
    
      8pkgdesc="The Drupal Console is a suite of tools that you run on a command line interface (CLI) to generate boilerplate code and interact with a Drupal 8 installation."
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10url="http://drupalconsole.com/"
    
      11license=('GPL')
    
      12depends=('php>=5.9.5')
    
      13install="${_pkgname}.install"
    
      14source=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver//_/-}"::"https://drupalconsole.com/installer")
    
      15sha512sums=('a58e78621b9e1bccb181641682c2c66356b2559638ebe2272c0d8f9302e4f973b70a77d2ce5f7e83e346d475ad4ab95fc90a77c0b09c40908af0c8d1c9597147')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  install -D -m755 "${_pkgname}-${pkgver//_/-}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/drupal"
    
      19}
    
      20

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
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