nvidia-mft

maintainer mazieres · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

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

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-20 16:03
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: David Mazieres (http://www.scs.stanford.edu/~dm/addr/)
 pkgname=nvidia-mft
-pkgver=4.35.0
-pkgverrel=159
+pkgver=4.36.0
+pkgverrel=147
 pkgversarch="${pkgver}-${pkgverrel}-$(uname -m)"
 pkgrel=1
 epoch=
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@
 changelog=
 source=("https://www.mellanox.com/downloads/MFT/mft-${pkgver}-${pkgverrel}-x86_64-deb.tgz")
 noextract=()
-b2sums=('6cee60dcc46bc4030e23033c83462d5eec55872978d8acacd67ee63a240fa6f6e45e9f86422014a8d30e7e7ea21bc99e5e80b291d73ec19385aad5657afef9e4')
-validpgpkeys=()
+b2sums=('d2652a34c3294b1505102c51ec728641aca122343c5c5d94e8f942878931f1cc69f9a27e2f12ea1851f0dd5a8d10e1be532ea41fb110975f4855cc4247a61dd3')
 
 package() {
     for deb in mft-${pkgversarch}-deb/*DEBS/*.deb; do

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 17:32:42	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-20 16:03:41	CLEAN	2
2026-06-20 00:50:07	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-20 00:18:46	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-19 23:51:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-19 19:07:35	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	MEDIUM	1