hplip-plugin

maintainer ZhangHua · 409 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a binary plugin from HP's official developers site, which is a non-whitelisted but legitimate domain for this software; the source is a prebuilt installer but from the vendor's own infrastructure, and the PGP signature is verified despite the skipped checksum on the .asc file.

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LOW AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a binary plugin from HP's official developers site, which is a non-whitelisted but legitimate domain for this software; the source is a prebuilt installer but from the vendor's own infrastructure, and the PGP signature is verified despite the skipped checksum on the .asc file.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:21 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.run::https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/$_date/hplip-$pkgver-plugin.run"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Carl Smedstad <carsme@archlinux.org>
    
      2# Contributor: andmars <andreas.marschall @ unitybox.de>
    
      3# Contributor: PyroPeter <googlemail.com @ abi1789>
    
      4# Contributor: Ivan Shapovalov <intelfx@intelfx.name>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=hplip-plugin
    
      7pkgver=3.26.4
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc="Binary plugin for HPs hplip printer driver library"
    
      10arch=(x86_64 aarch64 armv6h armv7h i686)
    
      11url="https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/binary_plugin.html"
    
      12license=(LicenseRef-HPLIP-LICENSE)
    
      13backup=(var/lib/hp/hplip.state)
    
      14# While hplip-plugin requires the version of hplip to match exactly,
    
      15# specifying such a requirement breaks the ability to upgrade hplip.
    
      16depends=("hplip>=$pkgver")
    
      17makedepends=(python)
    
      18options=(!debug) # Binary package cannot produce correct debug information
    
      19# https://developers.hp.com/hp-linux-imaging-and-printing/plugins
    
      20_date=2026-05
    
      21source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.run::https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/$_date/hplip-$pkgver-plugin.run"
    
      22        "$pkgname-$pkgver.run.asc::https://developers.hp.com/sites/default/files/$_date/hplip-$pkgver-plugin.run.asc"
    
      23        "scan-plugin-spec.py")
    
      24sha256sums=('199f78f8af7f36894d7180e9090963ce2550a75ec701f8a4ba37665a9746fdf0'
    
      25            'SKIP'
    
      26            'c6da101f46546f2145ecc0bf9b7bbb3fb5ecb40e799274e62a7e9bc435924d25')
    
      27validpgpkeys=('82FFA7C6AA7411D934BDE173AC69536A2CF3A243') # HPLIP (HP Linux Imaging and Printing) <hplip@hp.com>
    
      28
    
      29# Thank you @Toolybird for the solution
    
      30_user_agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/120.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
    
      31DLAGENTS=("https::/usr/bin/curl --user-agent ${_user_agent// /\\ } -qgb '' -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u")
    
      32
    
      33prepare() {
    
      34  sh "$pkgname-$pkgver.run" --target "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver" --noexec
    
      35}
    
      36
    
      37package() {
    
      38  depends+=(libgcc libstdc++ glibc sane libusb-compat)
    
      39
    
      40  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      41
    
      42  local line
    
      43  while read -r line
    
      44  do
    
      45    local -a splitted
    
      46    readarray -d, -n3 -t splitted <<< "$line"
    
      47    splitted[-1]="${splitted[-1]%$'\n'}"
    
      48    install -Dvm644 "${splitted[0]}" "$pkgdir/${splitted[1]}"
    
      49    if [[ "${splitted[0]}" == "license.txt" ]]
    
      50    then
    
      51      mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      52      ln -srfv "$pkgdir/${splitted[1]}" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/license.txt"
    
      53    elif [[ -n "${splitted[2]}" ]]
    
      54    then
    
      55      mkdir -p "$pkgdir/$(dirname "${splitted[2]}")"
    
      56      ln -srfv "$pkgdir/${splitted[1]}" "$pkgdir/${splitted[2]}"
    
      57    fi
    
      58  done < <(CARCH="$CARCH" python "$srcdir/scan-plugin-spec.py" | sort -u)
    
      59
    
      60  install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/var/lib/hp/hplip.state" << EOF
    
      61[plugin]
    
      62installed = 1
    
      63eula = 1
    
      64version = $pkgver
    
      65EOF
    
      66}
    
      67
    
      68# Note: to check the install, perform: hp-diagnose_plugin
    
      69

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
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2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
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2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
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2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
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2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2