humen-mcp-bin

maintainer antonelloflorio · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged Installs a self-update script with sudo privileges via /etc/sudoers.d, enabling privilege escalation for automated updates, which is a supply-chain risk if the update mechanism is compromised.

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

MEDIUM Recently orphaned & re-adopted orphaned_readopted

This package was orphaned and re-adopted within the last 30 days — a window where ownership transfers can introduce malicious changes.

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): Installs a self-update script with sudo privileges via /etc/sudoers.d, enabling privilege escalation for automated updates, which is a supply-chain risk if the update mechanism is compromised.

PKGBUILD

3 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: LIghtJUNction
    
      2pkgname=humen-mcp-bin
    
      3pkgver=0.1.20
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc='Human-in-the-loop MCP server'
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url='https://github.com/LIghtJUNction/humen-mcp'
    
      8license=('MIT')
    
      9depends=('gcc-libs' 'openssl' 'sudo')
    
      10provides=('humen-mcp')
    
      11conflicts=('humen-mcp' 'humen-mcp-git')
    
      12backup=('etc/humen-mcp.env')
    
      13install=humen-mcp.install
    
      14source=("https://github.com/LIghtJUNction/humen-mcp/releases/download/v${pkgver}/humen-mcp-${pkgver}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz")
    
      15sha256sums=('26d559d96e0c016192699c32893edfa6bb1861db98ddfd1693f543d60bfe048e')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  cd "humen-mcp-${pkgver}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
    
      19  install -Dm755 humen-mcp "$pkgdir/usr/bin/humen-mcp"
    
      20  install -Dm644 packaging/systemd/humen-mcp.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/humen-mcp.service"
    
      21  install -Dm644 packaging/systemd/humen-mcp-self-update.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/humen-mcp-self-update.service"
    
      22  install -Dm755 packaging/scripts/humen-mcp-self-update "$pkgdir/usr/lib/humen-mcp/humen-mcp-self-update"
    
      23  install -Dm440 packaging/sudoers/humen-mcp-self-update "$pkgdir/etc/sudoers.d/humen-mcp-self-update"
    
      24  install -Dm644 packaging/sysusers/humen-mcp.conf "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/humen-mcp.conf"
    
      25  install -Dm644 packaging/tmpfiles/humen-mcp.conf "$pkgdir/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/humen-mcp.conf"
    
      26  install -Dm640 env.example "$pkgdir/etc/humen-mcp.env"
    
      27  install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/humen-mcp/web"
    
      28  cp -a --no-preserve=ownership web/. "$pkgdir/usr/share/humen-mcp/web/"
    
      29}
    
      30

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-31 00:14
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -11,15 +11,10 @@
 conflicts=('humen-mcp' 'humen-mcp-git')
 backup=('etc/humen-mcp.env')
 install=humen-mcp.install
-source=(
-  'packer'
-)
-sha256sums=(
-  'SKIP'
-)
+source=("https://github.com/LIghtJUNction/humen-mcp/releases/download/v${pkgver}/humen-mcp-${pkgver}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.tar.gz")
+sha256sums=('26d559d96e0c016192699c32893edfa6bb1861db98ddfd1693f543d60bfe048e')
 
 package() {
-  sudo "$srcdir/packer"
   cd "humen-mcp-${pkgver}-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
   install -Dm755 humen-mcp "$pkgdir/usr/bin/humen-mcp"
   install -Dm644 packaging/systemd/humen-mcp.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/humen-mcp.service"
@@ -33,4 +28,3 @@
   cp -a --no-preserve=ownership web/. "$pkgdir/usr/share/humen-mcp/web/"
 }
 
-

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	3
2026-07-31 15:18:17	MEDIUM	3
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	3
2026-07-30 17:15:21	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2