nvidia-mft

MEDIUM

maintainer mazieres 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb archive from a non-whitelisted host (mellanox.com), which is plausibly official but not verifiable via standard trust mechanisms; the archive is extracted and installed without additional code execution checks, posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

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:24 source=("https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/MFT/mft-${pkgver}-${pkgverrel}-x86_64-deb.tgz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb archive from a non-whitelisted host (mellanox.com), which is plausibly official but not verifiable via standard trust mechanisms; the archive is extracted and installed without additional code execution checks, posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: David Mazieres (http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/addr/)
    
      2pkgname=nvidia-mft
    
      3pkgver=4.36.0
    
      4pkgverrel=147
    
      5pkgversarch="${pkgver}-${pkgverrel}-$(uname -m)"
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7epoch=
    
      8pkgdesc="NVIDIA Mellanox firmware tools (MFT)"
    
      9arch=(x86_64)
    
      10url="https://network.nvidia.com/products/adapter-software/firmware-tools/"
    
      11license=('custom')
    
      12groups=()
    
      13depends=(dkms usbutils python)
    
      14makedepends=()
    
      15checkdepends=()
    
      16optdepends=(linux-firmware-mellanox rdma-core linux-headers linux-lts-headers)
    
      17provides=()
    
      18conflicts=()
    
      19replaces=()
    
      20backup=()
    
      21options=(!strip)
    
      22install=
    
      23changelog=
    
      24source=("https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/MFT/mft-${pkgver}-${pkgverrel}-x86_64-deb.tgz")
    
      25noextract=()
    
      26b2sums=('d2652a34c3294b1505102c51ec728641aca122343c5c5d94e8f942878931f1cc69f9a27e2f12ea1851f0dd5a8d10e1be532ea41fb110975f4855cc4247a61dd3')
    
      27
    
      28package() {
    
      29    for deb in mft-${pkgversarch}-deb/*DEBS/*.deb; do
    
      30	bsdtar xOf "$deb" data.tar.gz data.tar.gz | bsdtar xC "$pkgdir"
    
      31    done
    
      32
    
      33    cd "$pkgdir"
    
      34    sed -ie 's/(arch)/(uname -m)/' usr/src/kernel-mft-dkms-*/dkms.conf
    
      35    rm -rf usr/lib
    
      36    mv usr/lib64 usr/lib
    
      37}
    
      38

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