ripe-atlas-probe

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

ftp.ripe.net is the official RIPE NCC FTP server, so the source host is legitimate and not a personal/unofficial mirror. However, two real concerns remain: (1) sha256sums=('SKIP') means there is no integrity verification whatsoever — if the RPM at that URL were replaced or MITM'd, the package would silently install malicious binaries; (2) the package extracts and installs prebuilt x86_64 binaries and shared libraries from an RPM directly into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib without any source build, meaning arbitrary native code is executed with no reproducibility guarantee. The combination of a prebuilt binary payload and a skipped checksum is a genuine supply-chain concern even from a plausibly legitimate host, warranting MEDIUM severity.

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:10 source=("${pkgname}::https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/atlas/software-probe/centos7/x86_64/atlasswprobe-5080-1.el7.x86_64.rpm")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): ftp.ripe.net is the official RIPE NCC FTP server, so the source host is legitimate and not a personal/unofficial mirror. However, two real concerns remain: (1) sha256sums=('SKIP') means there is no integrity verification whatsoever — if the RPM at that URL were replaced or MITM'd, the package would silently install malicious binaries; (2) the package extracts and installs prebuilt x86_64 binaries and shared libraries from an RPM directly into /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib without any source build, meaning arbitrary native code is executed with no reproducibility guarantee. The combination of a prebuilt binary payload and a skipped checksum is a genuine supply-chain concern even from a plausibly legitimate host, warranting MEDIUM severity.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: thorko contact@thorko.de
    
      2pkgname=ripe-atlas-probe
    
      3pkgver=5080
    
      4pkgrel=0
    
      5pkgdesc="Ripe atlas probe"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url='https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/atlas/software-probe/centos7/noarch/'
    
      8license=('AGPL-3.0-only')
    
      9makedepends=('git' 'go' 'make')
    
      10source=("${pkgname}::https://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/atlas/software-probe/centos7/x86_64/atlasswprobe-5080-1.el7.x86_64.rpm")
    
      11sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      12
    
      13package() {
    
      14    install -Dm0644 "${srcdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/atlas.service" "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/atlas.service"
    
      15    install -dm755 "${srcdir}/usr/local/atlas/lib" "${pkgdir}/usr/local/lib"
    
      16    cp -a ${srcdir}/usr/local/atlas/lib/* ${pkgdir}/usr/local/lib/
    
      17    install -dm755 "${srcdir}/usr/local/atlas/etc" "${pkgdir}/etc/atlas"
    
      18    cp -a ${srcdir}/usr/local/atlas/etc/* ${pkgdir}/etc/atlas
    
      19    install -dm755 "${srcdir}/usr/local/atlas/bin" "${pkgdir}/usr/local/bin"
    
      20    cp -a ${srcdir}/usr/local/atlas/bin/* ${pkgdir}/usr/local/bin/
    
      21}
    
      22

Scan history

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