wercker-cli

maintainer statenjason · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary ('wercker') from an Amazon S3 bucket (s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.wercker.com) and installs it directly as an executable. This is a legitimate pattern for the Wercker CLI — Wercker (acquired by Oracle) distributed its CLI as a prebuilt binary from this S3 bucket, and the URL structure matches the official distribution pattern. However, the concerns are real: (1) it is a prebuilt binary with no source build, so the supply chain cannot be audited; (2) Wercker/Oracle has since discontinued the product, meaning the S3 bucket may no longer be actively maintained or could be repurposed; (3) only MD5 and SHA256 checksums are provided — these verify integrity at packaging time but do not prove the binary was ever built from auditable source. The license is listed as 'unknown', which is a minor additional concern. The medium rating is appropriate: this is a real executed binary from a non-standard (S3 bucket) host with no source code, fitting the supply-chain risk profile, even if the original distribution was legitimate.

Triggered rules

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:15 source=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.wercker.com/cli/versions/${pkgver}/linux_amd64/wercker")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 80%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary ('wercker') from an Amazon S3 bucket (s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.wercker.com) and installs it directly as an executable. This is a legitimate pattern for the Wercker CLI — Wercker (acquired by Oracle) distributed its CLI as a prebuilt binary from this S3 bucket, and the URL structure matches the official distribution pattern. However, the concerns are real: (1) it is a prebuilt binary with no source build, so the supply chain cannot be audited; (2) Wercker/Oracle has since discontinued the product, meaning the S3 bucket may no longer be actively maintained or could be repurposed; (3) only MD5 and SHA256 checksums are provided — these verify integrity at packaging time but do not prove the binary was ever built from auditable source. The license is listed as 'unknown', which is a minor additional concern. The medium rating is appropriate: this is a real executed binary from a non-standard (S3 bucket) host with no source code, fitting the supply-chain risk profile, even if the original distribution was legitimate.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Jason Staten <jstaten07 gmail>
2# Co-maintainer: Thor K. Høgås <thor alfakrøll roht dott no>
3# PKGBUILD Source: https://git.sr.ht/~statianzo/pkgbuild-wercker-cli
4
5pkgname=wercker-cli
6pkgver=1.0.1401
7pkgrel=2
8pkgdesc='Wercker CLI'
9url='https://devcenter.wercker.com/development/cli/'
10license=('unknown')
11arch=('x86_64')
12depends=()
13makedepends=()
14optdepends=()
15source=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.wercker.com/cli/versions/${pkgver}/linux_amd64/wercker")
16md5sums=('24826155b172fc77f75f9544620c7baa')
17sha256sums=('6ffad306f56a1b9a8a44093eaa1bc07cd64a116829a38d388ad175ad3bb0f84e')
18
19package() {
20 cd "${srcdir}"
21 install -D -m755 "wercker" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/wercker"
22}
23

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