zep-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer xerrs 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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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
2026-11-01 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