icingaweb2

LOW
maintainer julianbrost 18 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package creates system groups and adjusts file ownership in post_install and post_upgrade, which is a common pattern for web applications needing proper permissions, but does not perform privileged actions beyond standard packaging expectations or self-update mechanisms.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package creates system groups and adjusts file ownership in post_install and post_upgrade, which is a common pattern for web applications needing proper permissions, but does not perform privileged actions beyond standard packaging expectations or self-update mechanisms.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
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:36 chmod 2770 "$pkgdir/etc/icingaweb2"
  • PKGBUILD:37 chmod 2770 "$pkgdir/var/log/icingaweb2"

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Julian Brost <julian@0x4a42.net>
2# Contributor: Malte Rabenseifner <mail@malte-rabenseifner.de>
3
4pkgname=icingaweb2
5pkgver=2.14.1
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="Icinga Web 2 Interface"
8license=('GPL-3.0-only')
9arch=('any')
10depends=('php-interpreter' 'icinga-php-library>=1.0.0' 'icinga-php-thirdparty>=1.0.0')
11optdepends=('php-legacy-gd: export data to PDF'
12 'php-legacy-imagick: graphs in PDF exports'
13 'php-legacy-intl: support for internationalization'
14 'php-legacy-pgsql: for PostgreSQL backend')
15url="https://icinga.com/"
16source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
17install='icingaweb2.install'
18sha256sums=('3cb7f3db206d0545d6b9f8064218d94b86bb6dc4b41a87b032521e39e4edf1b3')
19
20package() {
21 cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
22
23 #mkdir -p "$pkgdir/etc/webapps/icingaweb2"
24 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/etc/icingaweb2"
25 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
26 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/webapps/icingaweb2"
27 mkdir -p "$pkgdir/var/log/icingaweb2"
28
29 cp -r application bin doc library modules public schema "$pkgdir/usr/share/webapps/icingaweb2"
30 ln -s /usr/share/webapps/icingaweb2/bin/icingacli "$pkgdir/usr/bin/icingacli"
31
32 install -Dm644 LICENSE.md "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/icingaweb2/LICENSE.md"
33 install -Dm644 etc/bash_completion.d/icingacli "$pkgdir/etc/bash_completion.d/icingacli"
34
35 #chmod 2770 "$pkgdir/etc/webapps/icingaweb2"
36 chmod 2770 "$pkgdir/etc/icingaweb2"
37 chmod 2770 "$pkgdir/var/log/icingaweb2"
38}
39

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-28 00:06
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
# Contributor: Malte Rabenseifner <mail@malte-rabenseifner.de>
pkgname=icingaweb2
-pkgver=2.14.0
+pkgver=2.14.1
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Icinga Web 2 Interface"
license=('GPL-3.0-only')
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
url="https://icinga.com/"
source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/Icinga/icingaweb2/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")
install='icingaweb2.install'
-sha256sums=('154287f3f6965b2aa0263f19e8826bc610d7c6e0840538e6220b78eb55456205')
+sha256sums=('3cb7f3db206d0545d6b9f8064218d94b86bb6dc4b41a87b032521e39e4edf1b3')
package() {
cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
2026-10-28 19:50:31 Medium 1
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Low 2
2026-10-26 00:12:40 Low 2
2026-10-25 00:20:48 Low 2
2026-10-24 00:14:55 Low 2
2026-10-23 00:02:19 Low 2
2026-10-22 00:13:10 Low 2
2026-10-21 00:12:50 Low 2
2026-10-20 00:10:31 Low 2
2026-10-19 00:03:55 Low 2
2026-10-18 00:06:55 Low 2
2026-10-17 00:21:55 Low 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
2026-10-15 00:28:05 Low 2
2026-10-14 00:06:47 Low 2

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