human-mcp-bin

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The package installs a self-update script with a sudoers rule (human-mcp-self-update), enabling the binary to update itself outside pacman's control; combined with it being a prebuilt binary from a low-vote personal GitHub project, this creates a meaningful supply-chain risk where a future self-update could silently replace the binary with unreviewed code.

Triggered rules

Medium Privileged / out-of-pacman install (sudoers, setuid, or self-update) privileged_install

The package grants elevated privileges or installs an update path outside pacman: a /etc/sudoers.d rule (often passwordless), a setuid/setgid binary, or a self-update script/service that can fetch and run future code with no checksum verification. The initial install may be verified, but the ongoing privilege + update surface is a real supply-chain / privilege-escalation risk.

PKGBUILD:21 install -Dm644 packaging/systemd/human-mcp-self-update.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/human-mcp-self-update.service"
PKGBUILD:22 install -Dm755 packaging/scripts/human-mcp-self-update "$pkgdir/usr/lib/human-mcp/human-mcp-self-update"
PKGBUILD:23 install -Dm440 packaging/sudoers/human-mcp-self-update "$pkgdir/etc/sudoers.d/human-mcp-self-update"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package installs a self-update script with a sudoers rule (human-mcp-self-update), enabling the binary to update itself outside pacman's control; combined with it being a prebuilt binary from a low-vote personal GitHub project, this creates a meaningful supply-chain risk where a future self-update could silently replace the binary with unreviewed code.

PKGBUILD

3 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: LIghtJUNction
    
      2pkgname=human-mcp-bin
    
      3pkgver=0.1.21
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc='Human-in-the-loop MCP server'
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url='https://github.com/LIghtJUNction/human-mcp'
    
      8license=('MIT')
    
      9depends=('gcc-libs' 'openssl' 'sudo')
    
      10provides=('human-mcp')
    
      11conflicts=('human-mcp' 'human-mcp-git')
    
      12backup=('etc/human-mcp.env')
    
      13install=human-mcp.install
    
      14source=("https://github.com/LIghtJUNction/human-mcp/releases/download/v${pkgver}/human-mcp-${pkgver}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz")
    
      15sha256sums=('b62b4340b82618412d96f1dfb973882747fb3c76551ceca77ee3b63f2c7f96ad')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  cd "human-mcp-${pkgver}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
    
      19  install -Dm755 human-mcp "$pkgdir/usr/bin/human-mcp"
    
      20  install -Dm644 packaging/systemd/human-mcp.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/human-mcp.service"
    
      21  install -Dm644 packaging/systemd/human-mcp-self-update.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/human-mcp-self-update.service"
    
      22  install -Dm755 packaging/scripts/human-mcp-self-update "$pkgdir/usr/lib/human-mcp/human-mcp-self-update"
    
      23  install -Dm440 packaging/sudoers/human-mcp-self-update "$pkgdir/etc/sudoers.d/human-mcp-self-update"
    
      24  install -Dm644 packaging/sysusers/human-mcp.conf "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/human-mcp.conf"
    
      25  install -Dm644 packaging/tmpfiles/human-mcp.conf "$pkgdir/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/human-mcp.conf"
    
      26  install -Dm640 env.example "$pkgdir/etc/human-mcp.env"
    
      27  install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/human-mcp/web"
    
      28  cp -a --no-preserve=ownership web/. "$pkgdir/usr/share/human-mcp/web/"
    
      29}
    
      30

Scan history

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
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
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