ghost-dl-git

maintainer TheElevatedOne · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD clones a personal GitHub repo and uses pip to install unverified dependencies from requirements.txt (no pinned hashes, no integrity checks) and Nuitka, then compiles a standalone binary with Nuitka --onefile which bundles all dependencies into a single opaque executable installed to /usr/bin. The core concern is: (1) pip installs from PyPI without hash verification, meaning any of those packages could be compromised or typosquatted; (2) Nuitka --onefile produces a self-extracting binary that bundles all Python code, making the final artifact opaque and hard to audit; (3) the source is a personal/unofficial GitHub repo with no signed tags (sha256sums=SKIP). This is a genuine supply-chain concern — unverified pip dependencies compiled into an executed binary from an unofficial host — which fits the medium classification. It is not clearly malicious, but the combination of unverified pip installs + opaque compiled binary output is a real risk pattern.

Triggered rules

MEDIUM pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

PKGBUILD:34 pip install -r requirements.txt
PKGBUILD:35 pip install nuitka

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 clones a personal GitHub repo and uses pip to install unverified dependencies from requirements.txt (no pinned hashes, no integrity checks) and Nuitka, then compiles a standalone binary with Nuitka --onefile which bundles all dependencies into a single opaque executable installed to /usr/bin. The core concern is: (1) pip installs from PyPI without hash verification, meaning any of those packages could be compromised or typosquatted; (2) Nuitka --onefile produces a self-extracting binary that bundles all Python code, making the final artifact opaque and hard to audit; (3) the source is a personal/unofficial GitHub repo with no signed tags (sha256sums=SKIP). This is a genuine supply-chain concern — unverified pip dependencies compiled into an executed binary from an unofficial host — which fits the medium classification. It is not clearly malicious, but the combination of unverified pip installs + opaque compiled binary output is a real risk pattern.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Adam 'TheElevatedOne' Mladý <admin@elevated.ovh> -> https://github.com/TheElevatedOne
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=ghost-dl-git
    
      4pkgver=v1.1.4
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Kingdom Hearts Insider Game OST Archive Dowloader CLI"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://github.com/TheElevatedOne/ghost-dl"
    
      9license=('GPL3')
    
      10depends=('glibc' 'gcc' 'python' 'python-pip')
    
      11options=('!debug' '!strip')
    
      12makedepends=(
    
      13  'git'
    
      14  'clang'
    
      15  'patchelf'
    
      16  'ccache'
    
      17)
    
      18provides=(ghost-dl-git)
    
      19conflicts=(ghost-dl-bin)
    
      20source=("git+https://github.com/TheElevatedOne/ghost-dl.git#branch=main")
    
      21sha256sums=("SKIP")
    
      22
    
      23pkgver() {
    
      24  cd ghost-dl
    
      25  git describe --long --tags | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
    
      26  cd ..
    
      27}
    
      28
    
      29build() {
    
      30  set -e
    
      31  cd ghost-dl
    
      32  python -m venv venv
    
      33  source venv/bin/activate
    
      34  pip install -r requirements.txt
    
      35  pip install nuitka
    
      36  if ! ls build; then mkdir build; fi
    
      37  python -m nuitka --onefile --follow-imports --main=ghost_dl.py --output-dir=build --output-filename=ghost-dl
    
      38  deactivate
    
      39  rm -rf venv
    
      40  rm -rf build/ghost_dl.build build/ghost_dl.dist build/ghost_dl.onefile-build
    
      41  cd ..
    
      42}
    
      43
    
      44package() {
    
      45  set -e
    
      46  cd ghost-dl
    
      47
    
      48  install -Dm755 build/ghost-dl "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ghost-dl"
    
      49  install -D LICENSE -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
    
      50}
    
      51

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