[sec-check] install-opentabletdriver fetches unverified release tarball and moving-branch systemd unit; udev rules installed as root

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Security Finding

Severity: medium
Type: unsafe-pattern (unverified remote code/config installation)

system_files/shared/usr/share/ublue-os/just/apps.just — recipe install-opentabletdriver (lines ~15-45):

1. Downloads the latest OpenTabletDriver release tarball via the GitHub API and extracts it with no checksum or signature verification, then copies a udev rules file out of it to /etc/udev/rules.d/71-opentabletdriver.rules as root (sudo cp).
2. Fetches opentabletdriver.service from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flathub/net.opentabletdriver.OpenTabletDriver/refs/heads/master/... — a moving branch ref — with curl -s (no -f, so an HTTP error page would be written verbatim) into the user's systemd units and immediately enables it.

Impact

• A compromised OpenTabletDriver release asset or flathub packaging repo becomes root-installed udev rules (udev rules can run arbitrary programs via RUN+=) and an auto-enabled user systemd service — arbitrary code execution on the user's session, root-adjacent via udev.
• Moving-branch fetch means the installed unit can silently change at any time; there is no pin, no integrity check, and failures are swallowed by -s without -f.
• Contrast: the repo's own Containerfile pins the Yubico udev rules fetch to a full commit SHA — the established convention this recipe violates.

Recommendation

• Pin the flathub service fetch to a commit SHA, e.g.:
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/flathub/net.opentabletdriver.OpenTabletDriver/1a2a2083b8ed831df3b8b6ae3ddfe7dc21d02e01/scripts/opentabletdriver.service
• Use curl -fsSL (fail on HTTP errors) for both fetches.
• Verify the release tarball: fetch the release's published checksum asset (or pin a release tag + sha256) and check it before extracting/copying udev rules with sudo.

Note: open hold-gated PR #1064 adds BATS coverage for this same recipe in apps.just; to avoid conflicting with in-flight work, no fix PR is opened now. Fix should land after (or coordinated with) #1064.

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Filed by sec-check agent (ACMM L4/L5 — hold-gated mode)

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[mendezr]

Covered by PR #1198 (fix(apps): pin and sha256-verify OpenTabletDriver install fetches, branch fix/install-opentabletdriver-pin-verify), opened against main.

• The release tarball is now pinned to v0.6.7 and sha256-verified with sha256sum -c - before extraction and the root sudo cp of the udev rules; all fetches use curl -fsSL (fail on HTTP errors) instead of curl -s.
• The flathub opentabletdriver.service fetch is pinned to commit 1a2a2083b8ed831df3b8b6ae3ddfe7dc21d02e01 (verified to exist and fetch) and sha256-verified before the unit is enabled — no more moving-branch ref.
• The install branch is now fail-fast (set -euo pipefail), so a failed download or checksum mismatch aborts before anything is installed.
• Renovate tracks the pinned release tag via a new custom regex manager; the two sha256 pins are documented as manual same-PR updates (fail-closed until bumped).
• Verified end-to-end against the real upstream assets (tarball and unit both verify OK); mocked-harness tests added for tampered-payload and HTTP-error fail-closed paths in tests/test_apps_just.bats.

The hold noted in the issue description is resolved: PR #1064 (BATS coverage for this recipe) is merged, and this PR extends that suite rather than conflicting with it.

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