shayla

MEDIUM
maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary directly from a personal S3 bucket (Scaleway object storage under the maintainer's account 'ne02ptzero-binaries') and installs it as an executable in /usr/bin. There is no source code compilation, no official release artifact from the canonical upstream (git.sr.ht/~ne02ptzero/shayla), and no reproducibility guarantee. The sha256sum provides integrity against accidental corruption but not against intentional replacement by whoever controls the S3 bucket. This is a classic supply-chain concern: a compromised or hijacked personal S3 bucket could silently serve a malicious binary to all users. The upstream project exists and the maintainer appears to be the same person, so this is not clearly malicious, but distributing a closed prebuilt binary from a personal object store rather than building from source is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain risk.

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:11 source=("https://s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/ne02ptzero-binaries/${pkgname}/${pkgver}/x86_64/shayla")
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 x86_64 binary directly from a personal S3 bucket (Scaleway object storage under the maintainer's account 'ne02ptzero-binaries') and installs it as an executable in /usr/bin. There is no source code compilation, no official release artifact from the canonical upstream (git.sr.ht/~ne02ptzero/shayla), and no reproducibility guarantee. The sha256sum provides integrity against accidental corruption but not against intentional replacement by whoever controls the S3 bucket. This is a classic supply-chain concern: a compromised or hijacked personal S3 bucket could silently serve a malicious binary to all users. The upstream project exists and the maintainer appears to be the same person, so this is not clearly malicious, but distributing a closed prebuilt binary from a personal object store rather than building from source is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Louis Solofrizzo <louis@ne02ptzero.me>
2pkgname=shayla
3pkgver=1.1
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc="A fast and simple static site generator"
6arch=("x86_64")
7url="https://git.sr.ht/~ne02ptzero/shayla"
8license=("GPL3")
9provides=("shayla")
10conflicts=("shayla-git")
11source=("https://s3.fr-par.scw.cloud/ne02ptzero-binaries/${pkgname}/${pkgver}/x86_64/shayla")
12sha256sums=('ce12570f4dc9c5d8650475e8ac8b73ac64dc6b2f74932bd0d878de2ef3c3472d')
13
14package() {
15 mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/
16 cp ${pkgname} ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}
17 chmod +x ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}
18}
19

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