splunkforwarder

LOW
maintainer lb.laboon 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt Splunk Universal Forwarder binaries from Splunk's official domain (download.splunk.com), which is the vendor's legitimate distribution infrastructure, making it a standard and expected source despite not being on a generic whitelist.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads prebuilt Splunk Universal Forwarder binaries from Splunk's official domain (download.splunk.com), which is the vendor's legitimate distribution infrastructure, making it a standard and expected source despite not being on a generic whitelist.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:21 source_x86_64=("https://download.splunk.com/products/universalforwarder/releases/${_basever}/linux/$pkgname-${_splunkver}-linux-amd64.tgz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: L. Bradley LaBoon <brad@laboon.io>
2pkgname=splunkforwarder
3_basever=10.6.1.1
4_baseverl=${_basever//[^.]}
5_splunkver=${_basever}-b2ae2962645c
6# Splunk is inconsistent with the length of their version numbers
7if [ ${#_baseverl} -gt 2 ]; then
8 pkgver=${_basever}
9else
10 pkgver=${_basever}.0
11fi
12pkgrel=2
13epoch=3
14pkgdesc="Splunk Universal Forwarder"
15url="https://www.splunk.com/"
16arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
17license=('custom')
18conflicts=('splunk')
19install="$pkgname.install"
20source=("$pkgname.service" "$pkgname.sysusers" "$pkgname.tmpfiles")
21source_x86_64=("https://download.splunk.com/products/universalforwarder/releases/${_basever}/linux/$pkgname-${_splunkver}-linux-amd64.tgz")
22source_aarch64=("https://download.splunk.com/products/universalforwarder/releases/${_basever}/linux/$pkgname-${_splunkver}-linux-arm64.tgz")
23sha256sums=('a2e28b83efc9a390c490ae26f991eee99d7e122c6278b581b457c8b81757a9bc'
24 '27d1d172add8c64a275ec3356f0fa0b9d56036a7e64b7b882e066a67f6173b5b'
25 'bca1b7720a827973f1c959cb78d788324f47dd6fcfc03bf4452c457f2d044db5')
26sha256sums_x86_64=('4ecc838e054628692269156723ab2427fb757687c335ae1dbad2fb6ed5686aa8')
27sha256sums_aarch64=('28bb63601e669fb26881bcd16b11f926c2b35f2c6f5484b69827cddadb284bfb')
28options=(!strip libtool staticlibs !zipman)
29
30package() {
31 cd "$srcdir"
32 install -vDm 644 ${pkgname}.sysusers "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/sysusers.d/${pkgname}.conf"
33 install -vDm 644 ${pkgname}.tmpfiles "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/${pkgname}.conf"
34 install -Dm644 "$pkgname/license-eula.txt" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
35 install -Dm644 "$pkgname.service" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/$pkgname.service"
36 mkdir "$pkgdir/opt"
37 cp -r "$pkgname" "$pkgdir/opt/"
38}
39

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-21 00:12
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
# Maintainer: L. Bradley LaBoon <brad@laboon.io>
pkgname=splunkforwarder
-_basever=10.4.2
+_basever=10.6.1.1
_baseverl=${_basever//[^.]}
-_splunkver=${_basever}-33c3bf42cd73
+_splunkver=${_basever}-b2ae2962645c
# Splunk is inconsistent with the length of their version numbers
if [ ${#_baseverl} -gt 2 ]; then
pkgver=${_basever}
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@
sha256sums=('a2e28b83efc9a390c490ae26f991eee99d7e122c6278b581b457c8b81757a9bc'
'27d1d172add8c64a275ec3356f0fa0b9d56036a7e64b7b882e066a67f6173b5b'
'bca1b7720a827973f1c959cb78d788324f47dd6fcfc03bf4452c457f2d044db5')
-sha256sums_x86_64=('ccd279e6d473505bb07622b95ec95d49edda53e792eacfcb9efcc6a934611629')
-sha256sums_aarch64=('6b9a46e803f5690e2ff12ec3d8a0a9dad722299db85dc23394d615975169f3b9')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('4ecc838e054628692269156723ab2427fb757687c335ae1dbad2fb6ed5686aa8')
+sha256sums_aarch64=('28bb63601e669fb26881bcd16b11f926c2b35f2c6f5484b69827cddadb284bfb')
options=(!strip libtool staticlibs !zipman)
package() {

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Low 2
2026-10-26 00:12:40 Low 2
2026-10-25 00:20:48 Low 2
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2026-10-21 17:32:44 Medium 1
2026-10-21 00:12:50 Low 2
2026-10-20 00:10:31 Low 2
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2026-10-17 00:21:55 Low 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
2026-10-15 00:28:05 Low 2
2026-10-14 00:06:47 Low 2

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