sqlpackage

maintainer orphaned · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a Microsoft official distribution URL (go.microsoft.com/fwlink) pointing to the official sqlpackage release ZIP. Microsoft routinely uses fwlink redirects for all their download links; this is standard practice, not obfuscation. The binary is a legitimate Microsoft tool. The only real concern is the use of SHA1 instead of SHA256/SHA512, which is weaker but still provides integrity verification against accidental corruption. The fwlink redirect is pinned to a specific linkid that maps to a specific version, so silent swapping is not a realistic concern beyond what applies to any vendor-hosted binary. This is sloppy (weak hash, prebuilt binary) but not a genuine supply-chain threat beyond the inherent trust placed in Microsoft as the upstream vendor — the same trust required for any proprietary Microsoft tool package.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 82%): The source is a Microsoft official distribution URL (go.microsoft.com/fwlink) pointing to the official sqlpackage release ZIP. Microsoft routinely uses fwlink redirects for all their download links; this is standard practice, not obfuscation. The binary is a legitimate Microsoft tool. The only real concern is the use of SHA1 instead of SHA256/SHA512, which is weaker but still provides integrity verification against accidental corruption. The fwlink redirect is pinned to a specific linkid that maps to a specific version, so silent swapping is not a realistic concern beyond what applies to any vendor-hosted binary. This is sloppy (weak hash, prebuilt binary) but not a genuine supply-chain threat beyond the inherent trust placed in Microsoft as the upstream vendor — the same trust required for any proprietary Microsoft tool package.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:11 source=("sqlpackage-linux-x64-en-16.1.6374.0.zip::https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2215501")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Jonas Amundsen <jonasba+aur at gmail dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=sqlpackage
    
      4pkgver=161.6374.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Command-line tool for creating and deploying SQL Server databases and DACPAC packages."
    
      7arch=("any")
    
      8url="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/tools/sqlpackage-download"
    
      9license=("custom")
    
      10options=("staticlibs")
    
      11source=("sqlpackage-linux-x64-en-16.1.6374.0.zip::https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2215501")
    
      12sha1sums=("9a7944ce42a7e1def9612c56586fef80c645928f")
    
      13
    
      14package() {
    
      15  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
    
      16  ln -s "/usr/lib/$pkgname/sqlpackage" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/sqlpackage"
    
      17  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/lib"
    
      18  cp -r "$srcdir" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname"
    
      19  chmod 755 "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname/sqlpackage"
    
      20  install -Dm644 LICENSE.TXT "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      21}
    
      22

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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 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2