libbit4opki

MEDIUM
maintainer marcs 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb (a smart card middleware/driver library) from cmcps.it, which is not the official vendor (bit4id.com). The package is extracted and installed directly without any integrity verification beyond a single md5sum (which is weak). Smart card middleware runs with elevated privileges and interfaces with cryptographic hardware, making supply-chain integrity especially critical. cmcps.it appears to be an Italian IT services company, not the upstream vendor, so this is a third-party binary redistribution. There is no sha256sum or GPG signature verification. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: an executed binary/library from an unofficial host with only weak checksum verification.

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=("https://www.cmcps.it/images/$_file_name")
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 .deb (a smart card middleware/driver library) from cmcps.it, which is not the official vendor (bit4id.com). The package is extracted and installed directly without any integrity verification beyond a single md5sum (which is weak). Smart card middleware runs with elevated privileges and interfaces with cryptographic hardware, making supply-chain integrity especially critical. cmcps.it appears to be an Italian IT services company, not the upstream vendor, so this is a third-party binary redistribution. There is no sha256sum or GPG signature verification. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: an executed binary/library from an unofficial host with only weak checksum verification.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Fabio Sussarellu <sussarellu.fabio@gmail.com>
2
3pkgname=libbit4opki
4pkgver=1.3.3.2
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="Bit4ID Oberthur Middleware (Smart Card driver)"
7arch=("i686" "x86_64")
8license=("unknown")
9url="http://www.bit4id.com/"
10install=$pkgname.install
11options=("!strip")
12depends=('ccid' 'opensc')
13
14ARCH="amd64"
15md5sums=("ff9dc26f53f60dd324c842754cd31b3e")
16
17_file_name="$pkgname-$ARCH.deb"
18source=("https://www.cmcps.it/images/$_file_name")
19
20package() {
21 ar -xv $_file_name || return 1
22 tar -xvf data.tar.[xg]z -C "$pkgdir" || return 1
23}
24

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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
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2026-09-04 00:03:13 Medium 2
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2026-09-02 00:02:31 Medium 2
2026-09-01 00:11:19 Medium 2
2026-08-31 00:19:57 Medium 2
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