piranha-servlet

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt JAR (executable code) from Maven Central using curl inside package() rather than declaring it in source=() with a checksum. While Maven Central is a legitimate and well-known repository, bypassing makepkg's integrity verification (no sha256sums/b2sums) means there is no tamper detection — a compromised or MITM'd response would be silently installed. The JAR is executed at runtime by the JVM, so it constitutes executed code without integrity verification. This is a genuine, if moderate, supply-chain concern: not clearly malicious, but the missing checksum on an executed artifact from an external host warrants MEDIUM. Additionally, the 'install $startdir/$pkgname' line installs a file from the source tree that is not declared in source=() either, which is another unverified artifact.

Triggered rules

Medium External download from an untrusted host, not in source=() external_download_not_in_source

curl/wget fetches a URL on a non-allowlisted host that is not part of source=(), so it is not checksum-verified by makepkg.

PKGBUILD:20 curl -OL "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/cloud/piranha/dist/piranha-dist-servlet/$pkgver/piranha-dist-servlet-$pkgver.jar"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt JAR (executable code) from Maven Central using curl inside package() rather than declaring it in source=() with a checksum. While Maven Central is a legitimate and well-known repository, bypassing makepkg's integrity verification (no sha256sums/b2sums) means there is no tamper detection — a compromised or MITM'd response would be silently installed. The JAR is executed at runtime by the JVM, so it constitutes executed code without integrity verification. This is a genuine, if moderate, supply-chain concern: not clearly malicious, but the missing checksum on an executed artifact from an external host warrants MEDIUM. Additionally, the 'install $startdir/$pkgname' line installs a file from the source tree that is not declared in source=() either, which is another unverified artifact.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Abderrahman-byte <el.abderrahman00@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Abderrahman-byte <el.abderrahman00@gmail.com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=piranha-servlet
    
      5pkgver=23.1.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="Piranha is a cloud native extensible runtime, which delivers various integration libraries facilitating running applications in a non application server centric way."
    
      8arch=("any")
    
      9url="https://github.com/piranhacloud/piranha"
    
      10depends=("jre-openjdk")
    
      11provides=("piranha-servlet")
    
      12
    
      13
    
      14package() {
    
      15    mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/piranha-cloud/
    
      16    mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/bin/
    
      17
    
      18    cd $pkgdir/usr/share/piranha-cloud/
    
      19
    
      20    curl -OL "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/cloud/piranha/dist/piranha-dist-servlet/$pkgver/piranha-dist-servlet-$pkgver.jar"
    
      21
    
      22    ln -s ./piranha-dist-servlet-$pkgver.jar $pkgdir/usr/share/piranha-cloud/piranha-dist-servlet.jar 
    
      23    install $startdir/$pkgname $pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname
    
      24}
    
      25

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
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