wpe-cli-bin-test

MEDIUM

maintainer vire 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from an unofficial S3 bucket (wpeclibinaries) controlled by an unknown party rather than from the official WP Engine GitHub releases or a verified vendor CDN. The binary is then installed as an executable. While an MD5 checksum is present, MD5 is cryptographically broken and provides minimal protection against a targeted substitution attack. The S3 bucket name 'wpeclibinaries' is not verifiably tied to WP Engine's official infrastructure, and there is no GPG signature verification. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: a prebuilt binary from an unverified third-party host is installed directly into /usr/local/bin. This matches the classic medium-severity pattern of an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

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:14 source=("https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wpeclibinaries/$_pkgname/v$pkgver/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from an unofficial S3 bucket (wpeclibinaries) controlled by an unknown party rather than from the official WP Engine GitHub releases or a verified vendor CDN. The binary is then installed as an executable. While an MD5 checksum is present, MD5 is cryptographically broken and provides minimal protection against a targeted substitution attack. The S3 bucket name 'wpeclibinaries' is not verifiably tied to WP Engine's official infrastructure, and there is no GPG signature verification. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: a prebuilt binary from an unverified third-party host is installed directly into /usr/local/bin. This matches the classic medium-severity pattern of an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Niels Mentink niels.mentink@gmail.com
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=wpe-cli-bin
    
      4_pkgname=wpe-cli
    
      5pkgver=0.13.3
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='An aur package for the wpe-cli'
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url='https://wpengine.com/'
    
      10license=('MIT')
    
      11provides=('wpe')
    
      12conflicts=('wpe')
    
      13options=('!strip')
    
      14source=("https://s3-us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wpeclibinaries/$_pkgname/v$pkgver/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz")
    
      15# source=("${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz")
    
      16md5sums=('a99f2ee842a9fba80eccd0d2b79f5c63')
    
      17
    
      18# ${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz
    
      19package() {
    
      20  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/wpe" "${pkgdir}/usr/local/bin/wpe"
    
      21}
    
      22

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
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2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2