pwauth

maintainer oksijun · 3 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a tarball from Google's code archive, which is a reliable historical repository; the package builds from verifiable source code and installs only a small set of static files, posing minimal risk despite the non-whitelisted host.

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 a tarball from Google's code archive, which is a reliable historical repository; the package builds from verifiable source code and installs only a small set of static files, posing minimal risk despite the non-whitelisted host.

2 higher static findings superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:11 source=("https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"

MEDIUM Privileged / out-of-pacman install (sudoers, setuid, or self-update) privileged_install

The package grants elevated privileges or installs an update path outside pacman: a /etc/sudoers.d rule (often passwordless), a setuid/setgid binary, or a self-update script/service that can fetch and run future code with no checksum verification. The initial install may be verified, but the ongoing privilege + update surface is a real supply-chain / privilege-escalation risk.

PKGBUILD:33 install -D -m4755 pwauth "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/pwauth"

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1pkgname=pwauth
    
      2pkgver=2.3.11
    
      3pkgrel=6
    
      4pkgdesc="An authenticator designed to be used for web authentication"
    
      5url="https://github.com/phokz/pwauth/tree/master/pwauth"
    
      6arch=('x86_64' 'i686')
    
      7depends=('pam')
    
      8license=('BSD')
    
      9install='pwauth.install'
    
      10
    
      11source=("https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz"
    
      12        "pwauth.install"
    
      13        "http_uid.patch"
    
      14        "makefile.patch"
    
      15        "pwauth"
    
      16        "LICENSE")
    
      17md5sums=('2b7812724653bb0d238c1e0dfd5affdf'
    
      18         'be1bdc32c7f3b8fce10ff23bb0731326'
    
      19         'f0bc2063fb68f2b2c59f103e10c6ba20'
    
      20         '6db798700fd9f1bb1ed3b66b7924b1f2'
    
      21         'f4d1219470c9225a2693371a8dcbb480'
    
      22         'ba32eb75e91477479ae6eba0bb5c40d0')
    
      23
    
      24build() {
    
      25  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      26  patch -Np1 -i "${srcdir}/http_uid.patch"
    
      27  patch -Np0 -i "${srcdir}/makefile.patch"
    
      28  make
    
      29}
    
      30
    
      31package() {
    
      32  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      33  install -D -m4755 pwauth "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/pwauth"
    
      34  install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      35  install -D -m644 "${srcdir}/pwauth" "${pkgdir}/etc/pam.d/pwauth"
    
      36}
    
      37
    
      38# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      39

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	3
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	3
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	3
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	3
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	3
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	3
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	3
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	3
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	3
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	3
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	3
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	3
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	3
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	3
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	3
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	3
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	3
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	3
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	3