mmonit

MEDIUM

maintainer edke 3 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

mmonit.com is the official vendor website for the M/Monit commercial monitoring product, so this is not a random personal host — it is the canonical upstream distribution point. However, the package installs a prebuilt proprietary binary tarball directly from the vendor without any reproducibility guarantee, and the sha256sum provided gives only weak assurance (no GPG signature verification). The binary is executed as a system service (systemd unit), so a compromised or silently-replaced upstream tarball would result in code execution with system privileges. This is a standard 'prebuilt binary from vendor' pattern common in AUR, which is medium risk by convention: not clearly malicious, but a real supply-chain concern if the vendor host or CDN were compromised. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct here.

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:12 source=(https://mmonit.com/dist/$pkgname-$pkgver-linux-x64.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%): mmonit.com is the official vendor website for the M/Monit commercial monitoring product, so this is not a random personal host — it is the canonical upstream distribution point. However, the package installs a prebuilt proprietary binary tarball directly from the vendor without any reproducibility guarantee, and the sha256sum provided gives only weak assurance (no GPG signature verification). The binary is executed as a system service (systemd unit), so a compromised or silently-replaced upstream tarball would result in code execution with system privileges. This is a standard 'prebuilt binary from vendor' pattern common in AUR, which is medium risk by convention: not clearly malicious, but a real supply-chain concern if the vendor host or CDN were compromised. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct here.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# $Id$
    
      2# Maintainer: Eduard Kracmar <eduard.kracmar[at]gmail[dot]com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=mmonit
    
      5pkgver=3.7.9
    
      6pkgrel=7
    
      7pkgdesc="Easy, proactive monitoring of Unix systems, network and cloud services. Conduct automatic maintenance and recovery and execute meaningful causal actions in error situations."
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="http://mmonit.com/"
    
      10license=('Commercial')
    
      11#depends=('openssl')
    
      12source=(https://mmonit.com/dist/$pkgname-$pkgver-linux-x64.tar.gz \
    
      13        mmonit.service)
    
      14backup=('opt/mmonit/conf/server.xml' 'opt/mmonit/conf/web.xml' 'opt/mmonit/db/mmonit.db')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  mkdir -p $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname || return 1
    
      18  cp -R $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver/* $pkgdir/opt/$pkgname || return 1
    
      19  install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/$pkgname.service ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/$pkgname.service
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22sha256sums=('03a4fca8dc4940e0add3201b70786cee0b61faad5c034015781d48f709c7553d'
    
      23            '9a4edf62ef3da3af1e3dcfebd7b3bb3f96e81c5a9767021f0e4ed775f2dbb469')
    
      24

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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