eagle5

MEDIUM

maintainer john.y 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary installer (eagle-lin.run) from ftp.cadsoft.de, which is the official CadSoft/Autodesk EAGLE FTP server — a legitimate vendor host. However, the package executes this binary installer directly during the build phase (chmod +x + ./eagle-lin.run), which is a real supply-chain concern: FTP lacks transport security, so the download is susceptible to MITM substitution. The sha256sum check does mitigate this somewhat, but the pattern of executing a downloaded binary installer is inherently risky. The host itself (ftp.cadsoft.de) is the official vendor distribution point for EAGLE 5.x, so this is not an unofficial or personal host — it's a legitimate but insecure (FTP) vendor channel. This is a borderline case: the vendor host is legitimate, the checksum is present, but FTP + executed binary installer keeps this at medium rather than clean.

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=('ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/program/5.0/eagle-lin.run')

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 prebuilt binary installer (eagle-lin.run) from ftp.cadsoft.de, which is the official CadSoft/Autodesk EAGLE FTP server — a legitimate vendor host. However, the package executes this binary installer directly during the build phase (chmod +x + ./eagle-lin.run), which is a real supply-chain concern: FTP lacks transport security, so the download is susceptible to MITM substitution. The sha256sum check does mitigate this somewhat, but the pattern of executing a downloaded binary installer is inherently risky. The host itself (ftp.cadsoft.de) is the official vendor distribution point for EAGLE 5.x, so this is not an unofficial or personal host — it's a legitimate but insecure (FTP) vendor channel. This is a borderline case: the vendor host is legitimate, the checksum is present, but FTP + executed binary installer keeps this at medium rather than clean.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: lain <aur@hacktheinter.net>
    
      2pkgname=eagle5
    
      3pkgver=5.12.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="CadSoft EAGLE 5.x"
    
      6provides=("${pkgname}")
    
      7conflicts=()
    
      8arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      9url='ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/program/5.0'
    
      10sha256sums=('7903438b6f171894d7503d6b6e3149d3da321c386a86d1b05f1e08a3b924dafd')
    
      11license=('Proprietary')
    
      12depends=('libjpeg6-turbo' 'lib32-libjpeg6-turbo')
    
      13makedepends=()
    
      14source=('ftp://ftp.cadsoft.de/eagle/program/5.0/eagle-lin.run')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17	chmod +x eagle-lin.run
    
      18	./eagle-lin.run "${pkgdir}/opt"
    
      19	mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      20	ln -s "/opt/eagle-${pkgver}/bin/eagle" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/eagle-${pkgver}"
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23#eof
    
      24
    
      25

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2