imagescan-plugin-networkscan

MEDIUM

maintainer buzo 28 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The source is a prebuilt RPM bundle fetched from buzo.eu, which is a personal mirror rather than the official Epson download server (support.epson.net/linux). The package extracts and installs a prebuilt binary (networkscan) directly into /usr/lib/utsushi/. While the sha256sum provides some integrity protection against accidental corruption, it does not protect against the mirror owner silently replacing the artifact with a malicious one, nor does it verify the binary's provenance from Epson. The official Epson source appears to require a bundle download that may not be directly linkable, which explains the personal mirror, but this is still a supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial host. This is a genuine medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

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:17 source=("https://buzo.eu/mirror/epson/imagescan-bundle-fedora-$_fedrel-$_pkgver.x64.rpm.tar.gz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The source is a prebuilt RPM bundle fetched from buzo.eu, which is a personal mirror rather than the official Epson download server (support.epson.net/linux). The package extracts and installs a prebuilt binary (networkscan) directly into /usr/lib/utsushi/. While the sha256sum provides some integrity protection against accidental corruption, it does not protect against the mirror owner silently replacing the artifact with a malicious one, nor does it verify the binary's provenance from Epson. The official Epson source appears to require a bundle download that may not be directly linkable, which explains the personal mirror, but this is still a supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial host. This is a genuine medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Stephan Springer <buzo+arch@Lini.de>
    
      2# Contributor: nsmcclellan <email not provided>
    
      3# Contributor: Leonardo Santana Vieira <leosanvieira at gmail dot com>
    
      4# Contributor: rosenbaum <email not provided>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=imagescan-plugin-networkscan
    
      7pkgver=1.1.4
    
      8_pkgver=3.65.0
    
      9pkgrel=0
    
      10_fedrel=32
    
      11pkgdesc="Plugin for using Epson scanners with Image Scan v3 over network"
    
      12arch=(x86_64)
    
      13url="http://support.epson.net/linux/en/imagescanv3.php"
    
      14license=(custom)
    
      15depends=(imagescan)
    
      16install=imagescan-plugin-networkscan.install
    
      17source=("https://buzo.eu/mirror/epson/imagescan-bundle-fedora-$_fedrel-$_pkgver.x64.rpm.tar.gz")
    
      18sha256sums=('7f18badec57e6093a5bf56954df08f21738f7cd028f91ef334fbc0d75b0598c9')
    
      19
    
      20prepare() {
    
      21  cd "$srcdir/imagescan-bundle-fedora-$_fedrel-$_pkgver.x64.rpm/plugins"
    
      22  bsdtar -xf "$pkgname-$pkgver-1epson4fedora$_fedrel.$CARCH.rpm"
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26  cd "$srcdir/imagescan-bundle-fedora-$_fedrel-$_pkgver.x64.rpm/plugins"
    
      27  install -Dm755 usr/libexec/utsushi/networkscan $pkgdir/usr/lib/utsushi/networkscan
    
      28  install -Dm644 usr/share/doc/"$pkgname"/COPYING.EPSON.en.txt "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"/LICENSE
    
      29  install -Dm644 usr/share/doc/$"$pkgname"/NEWS   "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname"/NEWS
    
      30  install -Dm644 usr/share/doc/$"$pkgname"/README "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname"/README
    
      31}
    
      32

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2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
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