zep-bin

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from zep.run, which is not the canonical GitHub releases host (github.com/XerWoho/zeP). The project URL points to GitHub but the actual binary is fetched from a separate domain (zep.run). This is a supply-chain concern: zep.run is a third-party domain not directly tied to the GitHub project in a verifiable way, and a prebuilt executable is installed directly to /usr/bin. The sha256sum provides some integrity protection, but does not protect against the domain owner substituting a malicious binary and updating the checksum in the PKGBUILD. This is a classic medium-severity pattern: executed binary from an unofficial/personal release host rather than the canonical upstream source 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:10 source=("https://zep.run/releases/${pkgver}/zep_x86_64-linux_${pkgver}.tar.xz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from zep.run, which is not the canonical GitHub releases host (github.com/XerWoho/zeP). The project URL points to GitHub but the actual binary is fetched from a separate domain (zep.run). This is a supply-chain concern: zep.run is a third-party domain not directly tied to the GitHub project in a verifiable way, and a prebuilt executable is installed directly to /usr/bin. The sha256sum provides some integrity protection, but does not protect against the domain owner substituting a malicious binary and updating the checksum in the PKGBUILD. This is a classic medium-severity pattern: executed binary from an unofficial/personal release host rather than the canonical upstream source host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1pkgname=zep-bin
    
      2pkgver=1.2.0
    
      3pkgrel=7
    
      4pkgdesc="Fast package manager for Zig (binary release)"
    
      5arch=('x86_64')
    
      6url="https://github.com/XerWoho/zeP"
    
      7license=('GPLv3')
    
      8provides=('zep')
    
      9conflicts=('zep')
    
      10source=("https://zep.run/releases/${pkgver}/zep_x86_64-linux_${pkgver}.tar.xz")
    
      11sha256sums=('4713b33b59e0fe627e6aebe5ab202043da83c32b76fd710262b1c265efd28616')
    
      12
    
      13package() {
    
      14    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/zep" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/zep"
    
      15}
    
      16

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
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