splunkforwarder

LOW
maintainer lb.laboon 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt Splunk Universal Forwarder binaries from Splunk's official download domain, which is a legitimate source despite not being on the analyzer's whitelist; the worst case of a swapped source would be code execution, but the host is plausibly official and the checksums are provided, reducing risk.

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 download domain, which is a legitimate source despite not being on the analyzer's whitelist; the worst case of a swapped source would be code execution, but the host is plausibly official and the checksums are provided, reducing risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=10.4.2
4_baseverl=${_basever//[^.]}
5_splunkver=${_basever}-33c3bf42cd73
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-${_splunkver}-linux-arm64.tgz")
23sha256sums=('a2e28b83efc9a390c490ae26f991eee99d7e122c6278b581b457c8b81757a9bc'
24 '27d1d172add8c64a275ec3356f0fa0b9d56036a7e64b7b882e066a67f6173b5b'
25 'bca1b7720a827973f1c959cb78d788324f47dd6fcfc03bf4452c457f2d044db5')
26sha256sums_x86_64=('ccd279e6d473505bb07622b95ec95d49edda53e792eacfcb9efcc6a934611629')
27sha256sums_aarch64=('6b9a46e803f5690e2ff12ec3d8a0a9dad722299db85dc23394d615975169f3b9')
28options=(!strip libtool staticlibs !zipman)
29
30package() {
31 cd "$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

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