vega-cli-bin

LOW

maintainer soker 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary from a plausible Amazon-owned domain used for static assets, verifies it with a known checksum, and installs it without executing arbitrary remote code; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to a malicious binary, but the checksum ensures integrity, making it a low-risk, standard repackaging scenario.

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 prebuilt binary from a plausible Amazon-owned domain used for static assets, verifies it with a known checksum, and installs it without executing arbitrary remote code; the worst case of a swapped source is limited to a malicious binary, but the checksum ensures integrity, making it a low-risk, standard repackaging scenario.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("vega-${pkgver}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz::https://kepler-static-artifacts.kepler.labcollab.net/${_sha256:0:2}/${_sha256}")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Eduardo Parra Mazuecos <eduparra90@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=vega-cli-bin
    
      3_pkgname=vega
    
      4pkgver=1.3.4
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Amazon Vega CLI (KeplerVersionManager) — installs and manages the Vega SDK in \$HOME/vega"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://developer.amazon.com/docs/vega/latest/install-vega-sdk.html"
    
      9license=('custom:Amazon-PML')
    
      10depends=('curl' 'tar' 'gzip' 'lz4' 'nodejs')
    
      11optdepends=(
    
      12    'python38: required by parts of the Vega SDK toolchain (AUR)'
    
      13    'watchman: file watcher used by the Vega dev tools'
    
      14    'qemu-base: KVM virtualization for the Vega emulator'
    
      15    'visual-studio-code-bin: recommended editor with Vega Studio extension'
    
      16)
    
      17provides=('vega' 'kepler' 'vvman')
    
      18conflicts=('vega' 'kepler' 'vvman')
    
      19options=(!strip !debug)
    
      20_sha256="2fa7c110b21e71254dba2b5b8da6e5c2fcc8637bc20ccbc14f6175fa2c6f7285"
    
      21source=("vega-${pkgver}-linux-x86_64.tar.gz::https://kepler-static-artifacts.kepler.labcollab.net/${_sha256:0:2}/${_sha256}")
    
      22sha256sums=("${_sha256}")
    
      23install="${pkgname}.install"
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/vega" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/vega"
    
      27
    
      28    # Backward-compatibility names the upstream installer also creates.
    
      29    ln -s vega "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/kepler"
    
      30    ln -s vega "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/vvman"
    
      31
    
      32    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      33    cat > "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" << 'EOF'
    
      34The Vega CLI is distributed by Amazon under the Program Materials License
    
      35Agreement. See https://developer.amazon.com/support/legal/pml for the full
    
      36terms. This PKGBUILD only repackages the upstream binary for Arch Linux; it
    
      37does not modify it.
    
      38EOF
    
      39}
    
      40

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2