minecraft-server

LOW

maintainer edh 170 votes scanned 2026-10-31 00:07:41.364992

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Why flagged

The package downloads the official Minecraft server jar from Mojang's canonical release endpoint and builds wrapper scripts/unit files; the non-standard host is Mojang's own CDN, which is trustworthy, and the privileged install is standard for system service packages managing a game server directory.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads the official Minecraft server jar from Mojang's canonical release endpoint and builds wrapper scripts/unit files; the non-standard host is Mojang's own CDN, which is trustworthy, and the privileged install is standard for system service packages managing a game server directory.

2 higher static findings superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:21 source=("minecraft_server.${pkgver}n${_nonce:0:8}.jar"::"https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/${_nonce}/server.jar"

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:60 chmod g+s "${pkgdir}${_server_root}"

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Gordian Edenhofer <gordian.edenhofer@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributer: Philip Abernethy <chais.z3r0@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributer: sowieso <sowieso@dukun.de>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=minecraft-server
    
      6pkgver=26.3
    
      7_nonce=33680f5f2ac32864d6d7cf5e56a705fdb3e05f4c
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9_mng_ver=1.0.4
    
      10pkgdesc="Minecraft server unit files, script, and jar"
    
      11arch=('any')
    
      12url="https://minecraft.net/"
    
      13license=('custom')
    
      14depends=('java-runtime-headless>=16' 'tmux' 'sudo' 'bash' 'awk' 'sed')
    
      15optdepends=("tar: needed in order to create world backups"
    
      16	"netcat: required in order to suspend an idle server")
    
      17conflicts=('minecraft-server-systemd' 'minecraft-canary')
    
      18backup=('etc/conf.d/minecraft')
    
      19install="${pkgname}.install"
    
      20# See https://launchermeta.mojang.com/mc/game/version_manifest.json for a list of all releases
    
      21source=("minecraft_server.${pkgver}n${_nonce:0:8}.jar"::"https://launcher.mojang.com/v1/objects/${_nonce}/server.jar"
    
      22	"minecraft-server-${_mng_ver}.tar.gz"::"https://github.com/Edenhofer/minecraft-server/archive/refs/tags/v${_mng_ver}.tar.gz")
    
      23noextract=("minecraft_server.${pkgver}.jar")
    
      24sha512sums=('b72752ccbf9be62d4ec6aa9c7c2f53c6842a8f1eb0ce418256150f5993abea65f859af7d7c30df12c5a1f2831250458df06831e1db10501015501452ad260968'
    
      25            'dd4d68ca061c97a1e3cb5c0bb68439f7d8d45b15092344f3c4dbd4f7f39fef433d566670ad440970061007d93055183b570c7bf98f09c111ecdf8ab0f208f556')
    
      26
    
      27_game="minecraft"
    
      28_server_root="/srv/minecraft"
    
      29
    
      30build() {
    
      31	make -C "${srcdir}/minecraft-server-${_mng_ver}" clean
    
      32
    
      33	make -C "${srcdir}/minecraft-server-${_mng_ver}" \
    
      34		GAME=${_game} \
    
      35		INAME=${_game}d \
    
      36		SERVER_ROOT=${_server_root} \
    
      37		BACKUP_PATHS="world" \
    
      38		GAME_USER=${_game} \
    
      39		MAIN_EXECUTABLE=minecraft_server.jar \
    
      40		SERVER_START_CMD="java -Xms512M -Xmx1024M -jar ./minecraft_server.jar nogui" \
    
      41		all
    
      42}
    
      43
    
      44package() {
    
      45	make -C "${srcdir}/minecraft-server-${_mng_ver}" \
    
      46		DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" \
    
      47		GAME=${_game} \
    
      48		INAME=${_game}d \
    
      49		install
    
      50
    
      51	install -Dm644 ${_game}_server.${pkgver}n${_nonce:0:8}.jar "${pkgdir}${_server_root}/${_game}_server.${pkgver}.jar"
    
      52	ln -s "${_game}_server.${pkgver}.jar" "${pkgdir}${_server_root}/${_game}_server.jar"
    
      53
    
      54	# Link the log files
    
      55	mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/var/log/"
    
      56	install -dm2755 "${pkgdir}/${_server_root}/logs"
    
      57	ln -s "${_server_root}/logs" "${pkgdir}/var/log/${_game}"
    
      58
    
      59	# Give the group write permissions and set user or group ID on execution
    
      60	chmod g+s "${pkgdir}${_server_root}"
    
      61}
    
      62

Scan history

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2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	3
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	3
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	3
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	3
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	3
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	3
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	3
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	3
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	3
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	3
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	3
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	3
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	3
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	3
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	3
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	3
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	3
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	3
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	3
2026-10-12 00:18:51	Low	3