onscripter-en

maintainer orphaned · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The source is a prebuilt source tarball hosted on Dropbox (a personal/cloud storage host), not the official upstream release server (onscripter.unclemion.com). Dropbox links can be silently replaced by the account owner at any time, and the URL is not a canonical upstream release mirror. The package compiles and executes the resulting binary, so a substituted archive could lead to arbitrary code execution at build time. The MD5 checksum provides weak integrity protection (MD5 is cryptographically broken). However, this is a well-known open-source project (ONScripter-EN), the version is old (2011), and the pattern of hosting source tarballs on Dropbox was common for small open-source projects of that era. There is no evidence of active malice, obfuscation, or exfiltration. This is a genuine but low-probability supply-chain risk: medium severity is appropriate.

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:13 source=(https://www.dropbox.com/s/ag21owy9poyr2oy/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-src.tar.bz2)
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The source is a prebuilt source tarball hosted on Dropbox (a personal/cloud storage host), not the official upstream release server (onscripter.unclemion.com). Dropbox links can be silently replaced by the account owner at any time, and the URL is not a canonical upstream release mirror. The package compiles and executes the resulting binary, so a substituted archive could lead to arbitrary code execution at build time. The MD5 checksum provides weak integrity protection (MD5 is cryptographically broken). However, this is a well-known open-source project (ONScripter-EN), the version is old (2011), and the pattern of hosting source tarballs on Dropbox was common for small open-source projects of that era. There is no evidence of active malice, obfuscation, or exfiltration. This is a genuine but low-probability supply-chain risk: medium severity is appropriate.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Adler Ferreira <adler dot m dot f at gmail dot com>
2# Contributor: Anton Larionov <diffident dot cat at gmail dot com>
3
4pkgname=onscripter-en
5pkgver=20110930
6pkgrel=4
7pkgdesc="English version of the open source interpreter for the visual novel game scripting engine NScripter"
8arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
9url='http://onscripter.unclemion.com/'
10license=('GPL')
11depends=('sdl_mixer' 'sdl_image' 'sdl_ttf')
12# Dependency 'smpeg' 'bzip2' already satisfied
13source=(https://www.dropbox.com/s/ag21owy9poyr2oy/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-src.tar.bz2)
14md5sums=('6c22a3c919098075d24b03c4e6d4e3cc')
15
16build() {
17 cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
18 ./configure --prefix=/usr --no-werror
19 sed -i 's/.dll//g' Makefile
20 make
21}
22
23package() {
24 install -D -m755 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/${pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
25
26 install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}"
27 cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
28 install -m644 BUGS CHANGES INSTALL README "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}"
29}
30
31# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
32

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