hptnacp-bin

MEDIUM
maintainer orphaned 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from a personal/unofficial host (darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr) rather than from the upstream GitHub project (github.com/The-4n/hacPack). The upstream URL is only referenced in the metadata field, not as the actual source. The binary is installed directly as an executable in /usr/bin. There is a sha256 checksum, but this only verifies integrity against the personal server's copy — it provides no assurance that the binary matches what the upstream project actually produces. If the personal server is compromised or the maintainer pushes a malicious binary, users would execute arbitrary code. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host with no reproducible build or verifiable upstream artifact.

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=("https://darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr/arch/archives/hptnacp.tar.gz")
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from a personal/unofficial host (darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr) rather than from the upstream GitHub project (github.com/The-4n/hacPack). The upstream URL is only referenced in the metadata field, not as the actual source. The binary is installed directly as an executable in /usr/bin. There is a sha256 checksum, but this only verifies integrity against the personal server's copy — it provides no assurance that the binary matches what the upstream project actually produces. If the personal server is compromised or the maintainer pushes a malicious binary, users would execute arbitrary code. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host with no reproducible build or verifiable upstream artifact.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: darkgeem <darkgeem at pyrokinesis.fr>
2pkgname=hptnacp-bin
3pkgver=1.03
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="hacPackTools-NACP is a tool for creating and viewing Nintendo Switch NACP files"
6arch=('x86_64')
7url="https://github.com/The-4n/hacPack/tree/master/hacPack-Tools/hacPackTools-NACP"
8licence=('GPL2')
9depends=('pacman')
10provides=('hptnacp')
11conflicts=('hptnacp')
12source_x86_64=("https://darkgeem.pyrokinesis.fr/arch/archives/hptnacp.tar.gz")
13sha256sums_x86_64=("de211e1d0b3aeade4da16425f56ad0150f4bc82b7d0eed191b58d03d51f873c3")
14
15package() {
16 _bin_name="${pkgname/-bin/}"
17 _bin_file="${srcdir}/${_bin_name}"
18 install -Dm755 "${_bin_file}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_bin_name}"
19}
20

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