evostream-web

MEDIUM

maintainer tomi77 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb package from apt.evostream.com, which is the vendor's own Debian APT repository — a plausible official source for EvoStream software. However, it uses only an MD5 checksum (cryptographically weak, collision-prone) for integrity verification, and the host is not a well-known, widely-audited distribution channel. The package installs pre-compiled web service binaries/files directly from this .deb without any signature verification (no GPG/PGP check). If the host were compromised or the file silently replaced, the weak MD5 check would not reliably detect substitution. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: executed/installed code from a vendor-controlled but externally-hosted binary artifact with insufficient integrity guarantees. Not clearly malicious, but a real medium-severity packaging risk.

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:13 source=("http://apt.evostream.com/release/debian/9.4/pool/main/e/evostream-web/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-1_all.deb"
PKGBUILD:14 "https://evostream.com/public/files/Evostream-Media-Server-EULA-v2.pdf")

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 .deb package from apt.evostream.com, which is the vendor's own Debian APT repository — a plausible official source for EvoStream software. However, it uses only an MD5 checksum (cryptographically weak, collision-prone) for integrity verification, and the host is not a well-known, widely-audited distribution channel. The package installs pre-compiled web service binaries/files directly from this .deb without any signature verification (no GPG/PGP check). If the host were compromised or the file silently replaced, the weak MD5 check would not reliably detect substitution. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: executed/installed code from a vendor-controlled but externally-hosted binary artifact with insufficient integrity guarantees. Not clearly malicious, but a real medium-severity packaging risk.

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Tomasz Jakub Rup <tomasz.rup@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=evostream-web
    
      3pkgver=2.0.1.5649
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc="EvoStream web services and web user interface"
    
      6arch=('any')
    
      7url="https://evostream.com/"
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9makedepends=('poppler')
    
      10install="${pkgname}.install"
    
      11provides=('evostreamms-web')
    
      12conflicts=('evostreamms-web')
    
      13source=("http://apt.evostream.com/release/debian/9.4/pool/main/e/evostream-web/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-1_all.deb"
    
      14        "https://evostream.com/public/files/Evostream-Media-Server-EULA-v2.pdf")
    
      15md5sums=('6ab8c9a2b6f20629a011c8a9a8b12e48'
    
      16         'ee93910c6589b26c8eb056921f1944f8')
    
      17noextract=("Evostream-Media-Server-EULA-v2.pdf")
    
      18
    
      19build() {
    
      20  msg2 "Preparing license..."
    
      21  pdftotext ${srcdir}/Evostream-Media-Server-EULA-v2.pdf
    
      22}
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  msg2 "Extracting the data.tar.xz..."
    
      26  bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}/"
    
      27
    
      28  msg2 "Adding license..."
    
      29  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/Evostream-Media-Server-EULA-v2.txt" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      30}
    
      31

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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
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2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
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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