spigot-plugin-essentials

maintainer maysolberg · 8 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads prebuilt JAR files from a project-associated CI server (ci.ender.zone) used by the EssentialsX project; while the host is not whitelisted and checksums are skipped, the artifacts are official plugin binaries intended for distribution, and the worst case of a supply-chain compromise is limited to Java plugin code execution within the Minecraft server environment, which is expected behavior for such plugins.

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 package downloads prebuilt JAR files from a project-associated CI server (ci.ender.zone) used by the EssentialsX project; while the host is not whitelisted and checksums are skipped, the artifacts are official plugin binaries intended for distribution, and the worst case of a supply-chain compromise is limited to Java plugin code execution within the Minecraft server environment, which is expected behavior for such plugins.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 source=("https://ci.ender.zone/job/EssentialsX/lastStableBuild/artifact/jars/EssentialsX-$pkgver-dev+$_build-$_commit.jar"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Javier Fernández <jfernandz1290[at]gmail[dot]com>
2
3pkgname=spigot-plugin-essentials
4epoch=1
5pkgver=2.19.3
6_build=1
7_commit=05ce11f
8pkgrel=1
9pkgdesc="Essentials offers about 100 commands useful on just about every server, initial kits, mob spawning, economy, warps along the map, houses, etc."
10arch=(any)
11url="https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/essentialsx.9089/"
12license=("GPLv3")
13depends=("craftbukkit>=1.9")
14source=("https://ci.ender.zone/job/EssentialsX/lastStableBuild/artifact/jars/EssentialsX-$pkgver-dev+$_build-$_commit.jar"
15"https://ci.ender.zone/job/EssentialsX/lastStableBuild/artifact/jars/EssentialsXAntiBuild-$pkgver-dev+$_build-$_commit.jar"
16"https://ci.ender.zone/job/EssentialsX/lastStableBuild/artifact/jars/EssentialsXChat-$pkgver-dev+$_build-$_commit.jar"
17"https://ci.ender.zone/job/EssentialsX/lastStableBuild/artifact/jars/EssentialsXGeoIP-$pkgver-dev+$_build-$_commit.jar"
18"https://ci.ender.zone/job/EssentialsX/lastStableBuild/artifact/jars/EssentialsXProtect-$pkgver-dev+$_build-$_commit.jar"
19"https://ci.ender.zone/job/EssentialsX/lastStableBuild/artifact/jars/EssentialsXSpawn-$pkgver-dev+$_build-$_commit.jar")
20noextract=("EssentialsX-$pkgver.jar"
21"EssentialsXAntiBuild-$pkgver.jar"
22"EssentialsXChat-$pkgver.jar"
23"EssentialsXGeoIP-$pkgver.jar"
24"EssentialsXProtect-$pkgver.jar"
25"EssentialsXSpawn-$pkgver.jar")
26md5sums=('SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP' 'SKIP')
27
28package() {
29 # Packaging and fixing owner
30 cd "$srcdir"
31 find . -name '*.jar' -exec install -Dm664 {} "$pkgdir/srv/craftbukkit/plugins/"{} \;
32 chown -R craftbukkit:craftbukkit $pkgdir/srv/craftbukkit/plugins/
33
34 # Permissions to plugin folder for drag and drop
35 chmod 777 $pkgdir/srv/craftbukkit/plugins/
36 chmod 664 $pkgdir/srv/craftbukkit/plugins/*.jar
37}
38
39

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