wercker-cli

MEDIUM

maintainer statenjason 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2