mc-tellme-112-liteloader

maintainer eatmyvenom · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD fetches a manifest JSON from masa.dy.fi with 'SKIP' checksum, then dynamically resolves and downloads a .litemod binary (executed/loaded code) from a URL embedded in that manifest — also with no integrity verification. Two compounding issues: (1) the manifest itself has no checksum, so its contents can be silently altered; (2) the binary URL and filename are entirely controlled by whatever the manifest returns at build time, meaning a compromised or malicious manifest could redirect the download to arbitrary code. The host masa.dy.fi appears to be a personal/unofficial host for the mod author (Matti Ruohonen, a known Minecraft modder), so this is not clearly malicious, but the complete absence of checksums on both the manifest and the downloaded binary, combined with dynamic URL resolution, represents a genuine supply-chain risk. This is a real 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:14 source=("manifest.json::https://masa.dy.fi/api/games/mods/minecraft/latest/client/")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD fetches a manifest JSON from masa.dy.fi with 'SKIP' checksum, then dynamically resolves and downloads a .litemod binary (executed/loaded code) from a URL embedded in that manifest — also with no integrity verification. Two compounding issues: (1) the manifest itself has no checksum, so its contents can be silently altered; (2) the binary URL and filename are entirely controlled by whatever the manifest returns at build time, meaning a compromised or malicious manifest could redirect the download to arbitrary code. The host masa.dy.fi appears to be a personal/unofficial host for the mod author (Matti Ruohonen, a known Minecraft modder), so this is not clearly malicious, but the complete absence of checksums on both the manifest and the downloaded binary, combined with dynamic URL resolution, represents a genuine supply-chain risk. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: EatMyVenom <eat.my.venomm@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3_modname=tellme
    
      4_mcver="1.12.2"
    
      5_modloader="liteloader"
    
      6pkgname=mc-tellme-112-liteloader
    
      7pkgver="0.6.3"
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc="An informational mod for Minecraft. "
    
      10arch=('any')
    
      11url="https://masa.dy.fi/mcmods/client_mods/"
    
      12license=('LGPL')
    
      13makedepends=('wget' 'jq')
    
      14source=("manifest.json::https://masa.dy.fi/api/games/mods/minecraft/latest/client/")
    
      15sha1sums=('SKIP')
    
      16
    
      17pkgver() {
    
      18  cd $srcdir
    
      19  cat manifest.json | jq ".[\"mods\"][\"${_mcver}\"][\"${_modloader}\"][\"${_modname}\"][\"version\"]" | sed 's/-/./g;s/+/./g'
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22build() {
    
      23  wget $(cat manifest.json | jq -r ".[\"mods\"][\"${_mcver}\"][\"${_modloader}\"][\"${_modname}\"][\"url\"]")
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27  install -d -m 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/minecraft"
    
      28
    
      29  cp $(cat manifest.json | jq -r ".[\"mods\"][\"${_mcver}\"][\"${_modloader}\"][\"${_modname}\"][\"filename\"]") \
    
      30     "${pkgdir}/usr/share/minecraft/${_modname}-${_mcver}.litemod"
    
      31}
    
      32

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