pam_captcha

LOW

maintainer orphaned 4 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The source is hosted on a non-whitelisted but project-plausible domain (semicomplete.com) and builds from a standard tarball; the package installs a compiled PAM module, but the source is the project's own and there is no evidence of malicious intent or remote code execution.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The source is hosted on a non-whitelisted but project-plausible domain (semicomplete.com) and builds from a standard tarball; the package installs a compiled PAM module, but the source is the project's own and there is no evidence of malicious intent or remote code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=("http://semicomplete.googlecode.com/files/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Thore Bunde <root@netpimp.de>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=pam_captcha
    
      4pkgver=1.5
    
      5pkgrel=7
    
      6pkgdesc='A Visual text-based CAPTCHA challenge module for PAM/SSH Logins'
    
      7url='http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/pam_captcha/'
    
      8arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      9license=('BSD')
    
      10depends=('pam' 'figlet')
    
      11install=${pkgname}.install
    
      12source=("http://semicomplete.googlecode.com/files/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
    
      13sha256sums=('30b629fae019b5a0a746c5235597048a5e896c9cd9f5e47f8a0cf75d633c5317')
    
      14
    
      15build() {
    
      16	cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      17
    
      18	make
    
      19}
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22	cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      23
    
      24	install -D -m0755 pam_captcha.so ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/security/pam_captcha.so
    
      25}
    
      26
    
      27

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2