nodejs-mkdirp

MEDIUM

maintainer annikkitikkanen 27 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD installs the npm package 'mkdirp@0.5.1' directly from the npm registry at build/install time using 'npm install', with no source tarball, no checksum verification, and no offline/vendored source. The only declared source is '.AURINFO' with SKIP checksum. This means the actual installed code is fetched live from the npm registry without any integrity check, creating a genuine supply-chain risk: if the npm package were compromised or yanked/replaced, users would silently get malicious code. Additionally, 'npm config set strict-ssl false' temporarily disables SSL verification during the install, further weakening the security posture. This is a real medium-severity supply-chain concern — not a false positive — because executed JavaScript code is being fetched from an external source without verification.

Triggered rules

Medium npm/yarn/pnpm install of an undeclared external package npm_install_external

Runs `npm/yarn/pnpm install <package>` for a package not in source=(), pulling unpinned, unreviewed code at build time. Severity downgraded: the package declares/looks like a Node.js consumer, where build-time installs are expected.

PKGBUILD:21 npm install --user root -g --prefix "$pkgdir/usr" $_npmname@$pkgver

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): This PKGBUILD installs the npm package 'mkdirp@0.5.1' directly from the npm registry at build/install time using 'npm install', with no source tarball, no checksum verification, and no offline/vendored source. The only declared source is '.AURINFO' with SKIP checksum. This means the actual installed code is fetched live from the npm registry without any integrity check, creating a genuine supply-chain risk: if the npm package were compromised or yanked/replaced, users would silently get malicious code. Additionally, 'npm config set strict-ssl false' temporarily disables SSL verification during the install, further weakening the security posture. This is a real medium-severity supply-chain concern — not a false positive — because executed JavaScript code is being fetched from an external source without verification.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: aboe76 AT gmail DOT com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=nodejs-mkdirp
    
      4_npmname=mkdirp
    
      5pkgver=0.5.1
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="Recursively mkdir, like mkdir -p, but in node.js"
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9depends=('npm' 'nodejs')
    
      10url="https://github.com/substack/node-mkdirp"
    
      11license=('MIT')
    
      12provides=('nodejs-mkdirp')
    
      13source=(".AURINFO")
    
      14md5sums=('SKIP')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  local _npmdir="$pkgdir/usr/lib/node_modules/"
    
      18  mkdir -p $_npmdir
    
      19  cd $_npmdir
    
      20  npm config set strict-ssl false
    
      21  npm install --user root -g --prefix "$pkgdir/usr" $_npmname@$pkgver
    
      22  npm config set strict-ssl true
    
      23  rmdir "${pkgdir}/usr/etc"
    
      24}
    
      25

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