spring-tools-for-eclipse

maintainer Musikolo · 26 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a source tarball from the official Spring.io CDN, which is a legitimate and project-owned host, despite not being on a standard whitelist; the download is verifiable via checksum and contains buildable source for a legitimate developer tool, posing no execution or supply-chain 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 a source tarball from the official Spring.io CDN, which is a legitimate and project-owned host, despite not being on a standard whitelist; the download is verifiable via checksum and contains buildable source for a legitimate developer tool, posing no execution or supply-chain 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:23 "https://cdn.spring.io/spring-tools/release/dist/${_pkgver_release}/${_eclipse_pkgver_short}/${pkgname}-${_pkgver_release}-${_eclipse_pkgver}-linux.gtk.${arch}.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Current maintainer: Musikolo <musikolo {at} hotmail [dot] com>
    
      2# Previous maintainer: Joseph Post <joe [at] jcpst [dot] com>
    
      3# Previous maintainer: Andrew Paugh <andrew [dot] paugh [at] gmail [dot] com>
    
      4# Updates by maintainer: Chris Fordham <chris [at] fordham [hyphon] nagy [dot] id [dot] au>
    
      5# Original maintainer: Marcin
    
      6
    
      7pkgname=spring-tools-for-eclipse
    
      8pkgver=5.3.0
    
      9_pkgver_release=$pkgver.RELEASE
    
      10_eclipse_pkgver=e4.40.0
    
      11_eclipse_pkgver_short=e4.40
    
      12pkgrel=1
    
      13pkgdesc="Spring Tools, aka Spring Tool Suite (STS), is the next generation of Spring tooling for Eclipse IDE."
    
      14arch=('x86_64')
    
      15url="https://spring.io/tools#eclipse"
    
      16depends=('unzip' 'java-runtime>=21')
    
      17provides=('spring-tool-suite')
    
      18conflicts=('spring-tool-suite')
    
      19install=${pkgname}.install
    
      20license=("EPL/1.1")
    
      21options=("!debug")
    
      22source=(
    
      23    "https://cdn.spring.io/spring-tools/release/dist/${_pkgver_release}/${_eclipse_pkgver_short}/${pkgname}-${_pkgver_release}-${_eclipse_pkgver}-linux.gtk.${arch}.tar.gz"
    
      24    "${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      25    "spring-tools-for-eclipse.install"
    
      26)
    
      27sha256sums=('eb1497c45f1d0009472d614bed36e30c433768f0c4aa088ff1c4d372f806c2d3'
    
      28            '1e2e23447e1d616480a790f36807ee64630a4ad71345834633e4e8f6e9bba066'
    
      29            '99655c1631a60d8f3358488bf66b442dc8bb4abfae98681a49248399dfe10cd0')
    
      30
    
      31package() {
    
      32    # Install eclipse to version-agnostic st4e dirirectory
    
      33    install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/opt"
    
      34    mv "${srcdir}/sts-${_pkgver_release}" "${pkgdir}/opt/st4e"
    
      35
    
      36    # Install misc
    
      37    install -d ${pkgdir}/usr/bin ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications
    
      38    install -m644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/"
    
      39    ln -s "/opt/st4e/SpringToolsForEclipse" ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/SpringToolsForEclipse
    
      40
    
      41    # Install icon
    
      42    install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps"
    
      43    ln -s "/opt/st4e/icon.xpm" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/${pkgname}.xpm"
    
      44}
    
      45

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-19 19:07
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 # Original maintainer: Marcin
 
 pkgname=spring-tools-for-eclipse
-pkgver=5.2.0
+pkgver=5.3.0
 _pkgver_release=$pkgver.RELEASE
 _eclipse_pkgver=e4.40.0
 _eclipse_pkgver_short=e4.40
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
     "${pkgname}.desktop"
     "spring-tools-for-eclipse.install"
 )
-sha256sums=('3eb026de83a75c8788c7cdc6316cd789062ca901c2674dfa44cf3a9927f28ed6'
+sha256sums=('eb1497c45f1d0009472d614bed36e30c433768f0c4aa088ff1c4d372f806c2d3'
             '1e2e23447e1d616480a790f36807ee64630a4ad71345834633e4e8f6e9bba066'
             '99655c1631a60d8f3358488bf66b442dc8bb4abfae98681a49248399dfe10cd0')
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 07:14:03	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-19 19:07:35	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 18:04:49	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	MEDIUM	1