mssql-server

maintainer too · 32 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The URL uses an Azure Front Door (azurefd.net) CDN endpoint which is a Microsoft-owned infrastructure domain. The comment in the PKGBUILD explicitly notes this is an alias/CDN front for packages.microsoft.com/rhel/8/mssql-server-2022. Azure Front Door endpoints on azurefd.net are provisioned by Microsoft and the domain is not a personal or third-party host — it is Microsoft's own CDN infrastructure. The sha256sum is pinned, so even if the CDN were somehow compromised, the checksum would catch substitution. The package itself installs a prebuilt Microsoft SQL Server binary (proprietary, closed-source), which is a legitimate if unusual AUR pattern. The main concern is that this is not the canonical packages.microsoft.com URL, making it slightly harder to verify provenance, but the pinned hash mitigates supply-chain risk. This is sloppy/non-standard packaging (using a CDN alias rather than the canonical URL) but not a genuine security threat.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 75%): The URL uses an Azure Front Door (azurefd.net) CDN endpoint which is a Microsoft-owned infrastructure domain. The comment in the PKGBUILD explicitly notes this is an alias/CDN front for packages.microsoft.com/rhel/8/mssql-server-2022. Azure Front Door endpoints on azurefd.net are provisioned by Microsoft and the domain is not a personal or third-party host — it is Microsoft's own CDN infrastructure. The sha256sum is pinned, so even if the CDN were somehow compromised, the checksum would catch substitution. The package itself installs a prebuilt Microsoft SQL Server binary (proprietary, closed-source), which is a legitimate if unusual AUR pattern. The main concern is that this is not the canonical packages.microsoft.com URL, making it slightly harder to verify provenance, but the pinned hash mitigates supply-chain risk. This is sloppy/non-standard packaging (using a CDN alias rather than the canonical URL) but not a genuine security threat.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:36 source=("https://pmc-prod-afd-endpoint-evdhh8f8byhsezfp.b01.azurefd.net/rhel/8/mssql-server-2022/Packages/m/${pkgname}-${_prodver}.x86_64.rpm")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: too <turecki@gmail.com>
    
      2# Maintainer: DoctorZeus(Dan) <contact@techtonicsoftware.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Gabriel Morrison Lima Dantas <gabrielmldantas@gmail.com>
    
      4# Contributor: Aleksey Kamenskikh <aleksey.kamenskikh@gmail.com>
    
      5pkgname=mssql-server
    
      6pkgver=16.0.4225.2
    
      7_remRevision=2
    
      8_prodver=${pkgver}-${_remRevision}
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="Microsoft SQL Server for Linux"
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/linux/sql-server-linux-overview?view=sql-server-ver16"
    
      13license=('unknown')
    
      14depends=(
    
      15	'libatomic_ops'
    
      16	'libunwind'
    
      17	'numactl' 
    
      18	'glibc'
    
      19	'libc++'
    
      20	'gdb'
    
      21	'openssl-1.1'
    
      22	'krb5'
    
      23	'nss'
    
      24	'sssd'
    
      25	'gawk'
    
      26	'sed'
    
      27	'pam'
    
      28	'libldap24'
    
      29);
    
      30optdepends=(
    
      31	'python-pyodbc'
    
      32	'debugedit'
    
      33);
    
      34
    
      35#This is a local azure instance that resolves as an alias of "packages.microsoft.com/rhel/8/mssql-server-2022" as some regions have different dir structures
    
      36source=("https://pmc-prod-afd-endpoint-evdhh8f8byhsezfp.b01.azurefd.net/rhel/8/mssql-server-2022/Packages/m/${pkgname}-${_prodver}.x86_64.rpm")
    
      37
    
      38sha256sums=('852f3d2cda6660181ac54e76d6bbac559f9a79a77f42c7f67b103184a81a5ef3')
    
      39
    
      40install=$pkgname.install
    
      41
    
      42package() {
    
      43
    
      44	#Setup
    
      45	cd $pkgdir
    
      46	mv $srcdir/opt .
    
      47	mv $srcdir/usr .
    
      48
    
      49	#Create links to non-breaking libssl and libcrypto libs
    
      50	ln -sf /lib/libssl.so.1.1 $pkgdir/opt/mssql/lib/libssl.so
    
      51	ln -sf /lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 $pkgdir/opt/mssql/lib/libcrypto.so
    
      52
    
      53	#Set systemd service file perms
    
      54	chmod 644 $pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/mssql-server.service
    
      55}
    
      56

Scan history

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2