icingaweb2

maintainer julianbrost · 18 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
View on AUR ↗
Why flagged The package creates and manages a dedicated system group (icingaweb2) and adjusts group memberships, which is typical for services needing specific file access permissions, but does not perform privileged self-updates or setuid operations.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package creates and manages a dedicated system group (icingaweb2) and adjusts group memberships, which is typical for services needing specific file access permissions, but does not perform privileged self-updates or setuid operations.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=2.14.0
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$pkgver.tar.gz")
17install='icingaweb2.install'
18sha256sums=('154287f3f6965b2aa0263f19e8826bc610d7c6e0840538e6220b78eb55456205')
19
20package() {
21 cd "$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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-08-03 00:08:14 LOW 2
2026-08-02 00:16:08 LOW 2
2026-08-01 00:11:18 LOW 2
2026-07-31 00:14:10 LOW 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
2026-07-16 00:05:41 LOW 2
2026-07-15 00:09:25 LOW 2

Report a package

Reports go to the AURWatch maintainer (one person) and are read by hand. No login required.

0 / 4000
Your suggestion