jpcsp

MEDIUM

maintainer soimort 31 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary archive (a compiled Java PSP emulator with native libraries) from files.emunewz.net, which is a third-party build host rather than the official jpcsp.org or a recognized mirror. The archive is extracted and installed directly under /opt. While emunewz.net appears to be a known emulator build hosting site that has historically hosted JPCSP nightly builds, it is not the canonical upstream source and is not under the project maintainers' direct control. A compromise of that host would result in arbitrary code execution on the user's machine. The MD5 checksum provides minimal integrity protection (MD5 is cryptographically broken). This is a genuine supply-chain concern: executed binary from a non-official third-party host. Not clearly malicious, but the risk is real and warrants medium severity.

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:18 source=("jpcsp-r0f1ba37-linux-x86-64.7z::http://files.emunewz.net/builds/jpcsp/2018/02/12/jpcsp-r0f1ba37-linux-x86-64.7z"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary archive (a compiled Java PSP emulator with native libraries) from files.emunewz.net, which is a third-party build host rather than the official jpcsp.org or a recognized mirror. The archive is extracted and installed directly under /opt. While emunewz.net appears to be a known emulator build hosting site that has historically hosted JPCSP nightly builds, it is not the canonical upstream source and is not under the project maintainers' direct control. A compromise of that host would result in arbitrary code execution on the user's machine. The MD5 checksum provides minimal integrity protection (MD5 is cryptographically broken). This is a genuine supply-chain concern: executed binary from a non-official third-party host. Not clearly malicious, but the risk is real and warrants medium severity.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Mort Yao <soi@mort.ninja>
    
      2# Contributor: Ashton S. Hellwig <ahellwig.dev@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Bug <bug2000@gmail.com>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=jpcsp
    
      6pkgver="r0f1ba37"
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="Java PSP Emulator"
    
      9options=('!strip')
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url="http://jpcsp.org/"
    
      12license=('GPL')
    
      13depends=('java-runtime')
    
      14makedepends=('p7zip')
    
      15install=jpcsp.install
    
      16_pkgarch='x86_64'
    
      17
    
      18source=("jpcsp-r0f1ba37-linux-x86-64.7z::http://files.emunewz.net/builds/jpcsp/2018/02/12/jpcsp-r0f1ba37-linux-x86-64.7z"
    
      19        "jpcsp.sh"
    
      20        "jpcsp.desktop")
    
      21md5sums=('6f0015787b9f68950396bb84ec9ba4a9'
    
      22         '7da803eed1b8b00bdf3d6f2486605b86'
    
      23         'cd39aad03798576eb5228ed4184885c8')
    
      24
    
      25build() {
    
      26  cd $srcdir
    
      27  7z x ${pkgname}-${pkgver}-linux-x86-64.7z -w $PWD
    
      28}
    
      29
    
      30package(){
    
      31  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/"
    
      32  cp -a "$srcdir/jpcsp-linux-amd64/" "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/"
    
      33  chmod -R 755 $pkgdir/opt/$pkgnname
    
      34  install -D jpcsp.sh $pkgdir/usr/bin/jpcsp
    
      35  install -D jpcsp.desktop $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/jpcsp.desktop
    
      36
    
      37}
    
      38

Scan history

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2