hws

MEDIUM
maintainer lion7 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from an IPFS content-addressed gateway (w3s.link). The key point is that IPFS CIDs are content-addressed: the CID 'bafybeiai6vgnd5z2lgyrjbq2luvhbxcihlmbr67dtsdrt6wpsylm5z7ftu' cryptographically identifies the exact content, so the content itself cannot be silently swapped (unlike a mutable URL). However, w3s.link is a third-party IPFS gateway (web3.storage), not the official vendor distribution channel (sentrysoftware.com). The .deb is a prebuilt binary that gets installed and executed, and it is sourced from an unofficial/personal host rather than the vendor's own infrastructure. The md5sums check provides only weak integrity verification. The combination of: (1) executed binary/library content, (2) sourced from a non-official third-party host, and (3) only MD5 integrity checking (though partially mitigated by IPFS CID immutability) constitutes a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern — the original pinned content could itself be malicious or tampered before pinning. The PKGBUILD also has a minor functional issue (data.tar.xz extraction happens without first extracting the .deb), but this is a packaging bug rather than a security issue.

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:10 source=("https://w3s.link/ipfs/bafybeiai6vgnd5z2lgyrjbq2luvhbxcihlmbr67dtsdrt6wpsylm5z7ftu/hws-debian-3.1.00-amd64.deb")
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 downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from an IPFS content-addressed gateway (w3s.link). The key point is that IPFS CIDs are content-addressed: the CID 'bafybeiai6vgnd5z2lgyrjbq2luvhbxcihlmbr67dtsdrt6wpsylm5z7ftu' cryptographically identifies the exact content, so the content itself cannot be silently swapped (unlike a mutable URL). However, w3s.link is a third-party IPFS gateway (web3.storage), not the official vendor distribution channel (sentrysoftware.com). The .deb is a prebuilt binary that gets installed and executed, and it is sourced from an unofficial/personal host rather than the vendor's own infrastructure. The md5sums check provides only weak integrity verification. The combination of: (1) executed binary/library content, (2) sourced from a non-official third-party host, and (3) only MD5 integrity checking (though partially mitigated by IPFS CID immutability) constitutes a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern — the original pinned content could itself be malicious or tampered before pinning. The PKGBUILD also has a minor functional issue (data.tar.xz extraction happens without first extracting the .deb), but this is a packaging bug rather than a security issue.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Gerard de Leeuw <gdeleeuw at leeuwit dot nl>
2
3pkgname=hws
4pkgver=3.1.00
5pkgrel=4
6pkgdesc="Hardware Sentry"
7arch=("x86_64")
8url="https://www.sentrysoftware.com/docs/hws-doc/${pkgver}/index.html"
9license=("custom")
10source=("https://w3s.link/ipfs/bafybeiai6vgnd5z2lgyrjbq2luvhbxcihlmbr67dtsdrt6wpsylm5z7ftu/hws-debian-3.1.00-amd64.deb")
11md5sums=("921951cf1aa02107499642a78b5adeb4")
12
13package() {
14 tar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
15 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname" "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
16 install -Dm644 "$pkgdir/opt/hws/lib/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
17 mv "$pkgdir/lib" "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
18 ln -s /opt/hws/bin/hws ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/hws
19}
20

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