ftop

MEDIUM

maintainer liberodark 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD installs a prebuilt x86_64 RPM binary (ftop) sourced from a third-party FTP mirror (TU Chemnitz rpmforge repository) rather than the official upstream source or a well-known distribution mirror. The rpmforge/repoforge project was discontinued around 2015, making this an unmaintained third-party binary repository. The binary is executed/installed directly into the system. While a sha512 checksum is provided (pinning the specific binary), the origin is unofficial and the provenance cannot be independently verified — if the mirror were compromised or the file replaced, users would receive a malicious binary. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial, discontinued third-party host. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct.

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:12 source_x86_64=("http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el7/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/ftop-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.el7.rf.x86_64.rpm")

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 installs a prebuilt x86_64 RPM binary (ftop) sourced from a third-party FTP mirror (TU Chemnitz rpmforge repository) rather than the official upstream source or a well-known distribution mirror. The rpmforge/repoforge project was discontinued around 2015, making this an unmaintained third-party binary repository. The binary is executed/installed directly into the system. While a sha512 checksum is provided (pinning the specific binary), the origin is unofficial and the provenance cannot be independently verified — if the mirror were compromised or the file replaced, users would receive a malicious binary. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial, discontinued third-party host. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1
    
      2# Maintainer: liberodark
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=ftop
    
      5pkgver=1.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="Utility that shows shows progress of open files and file systems"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://linux.die.net/man/1/ftop"
    
      10license=('GPL 3')
    
      11depends=('ncurses5-compat-libs' 'glib2')
    
      12source_x86_64=("http://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/dag/redhat/el7/en/x86_64/rpmforge/RPMS/ftop-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.el7.rf.x86_64.rpm")
    
      13sha512sums_x86_64=('a0848de5491385240701adeb1078821c10ea0fdcfb8683b9879fcbe2bf15c0bcc20566f89ad170adc5d239b2af470e9e946dc11ce849c01f2a572142b77a7d52')
    
      14        
    
      15package() {
    
      16  cd $srcdir
    
      17  cp -r usr $pkgdir
    
      18}
    
      19

Scan history

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