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Formula sources were staged by file name alone. A URL such as GitHub's https://codeload.github.com/<owner>/<repo>/tar.gz/refs/tags/v0.0.23 has no extension, so ExtractionFormat::from_file_name returned Raw and the tarball was copied into the build directory unextracted. The formula's install then ran against a lone gzip file, e.g. go build failing with "go.mod file not found". brew handles these by falling back to the file's content when the name is inconclusive.

This surfaced building cf-vault from my custom tap, whose url is a codeload URL: https://github.com/jacobbednarz/homebrew-tap/blob/b03141211969573bb4b4fcc9c3016ba04e5898ec/Formula/cf-vault.rb

Add ExtractionFormat::detect, which keeps the name's verdict when it has one and otherwise sniffs the leading bytes via ExtractionFormat::from_magic: zip, or a gzip/xz/bzip2/zstd/plain stream whose payload opens with a ustar header. Requiring the tar header keeps bare compressed files and binaries staged as-is. Formula source staging uses it, and it replaces the cask fetcher's zip-only detect_extraction_format, so suffixless tarballs in casks are unpacked too rather than copied as a raw binary.

The shim's MiseDownload.unpack, which stages formula resources, had the same name-only check; it now falls back to the zip magic or a tar tf probe.

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  • New Features
    • Archives can now be recognized by their contents when they don’t have a known file extension, including tar archives compressed with gzip, xz, bzip2, or zstd.
    • Package and source downloads can extract extensionless ZIP and tar archives; unrecognized files are preserved as-is.
  • Bug Fixes
    • Empty files and non-archive files are no longer mistaken for tar archives.

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Archive detection now checks file contents when a filename does not identify a format. Rust cask extraction and source staging use the shared detector. The Homebrew shim inspects unrecognized extensions to identify ZIP files and tar archives.

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Archive Detection and Extraction

Layer / File(s) Summary
Content-aware format detection
crates/mise-util/src/file.rs, crates/mise-util/src/file/tests/archive_contents.rs
ExtractionFormat::detect uses a recognized filename format when available, otherwise checks file contents. Tests cover ZIP, tar formats, invalid inputs, and filename precedence.
Rust archive extraction callers
src/system/packages/brew/cask/fetch.rs, src/system/packages/brew/cask/tests.rs, src/system/packages/brew/source.rs
Cask extraction and source staging use ExtractionFormat::detect. Tests cover cask format detection and staging of an extensionless tarball.
Unrecognized-extension unpacking
src/system/packages/brew/shim.rb, src/system/packages/brew/source.rs
The Ruby shim checks ZIP signatures and non-empty tar archives before copying an unrecognized file. Integration tests cover extensionless tarballs, scripts, and empty files.

Priority: βž– Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Stage as stage_source
  participant Detect as ExtractionFormat::detect
  participant Magic as ExtractionFormat::from_magic
  participant Archive as Archive file
  Stage->>Detect: pass archive path and upstream basename
  Detect->>Magic: probe when basename has no recognized format
  Magic->>Archive: read signature and archive bytes
  Archive-->>Magic: file bytes
  Magic-->>Detect: detected format or None
  Detect-->>Stage: return detected format or Raw
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Merge Risk: πŸ”΅ Low Β· up to 57fce

The change is mergeable with owner awareness that some suffixless tar and ZIP files may still be copied rather than unpacked, or fail during unpacking.

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Security architecture risk: πŸ”΅ Low Β· up to 0575e

Extensionless downloads can now be unpacked and used during installation. Existing checksum checks limit who can change most of those downloads, but archive extraction adds a containment question that this review could not fully resolve. No archive escape or other security finding was verified.

Retained concerns

  • Medium Β· security Β· inferred: Suffixless downloaded archives now reach extraction and installation staging. The shim does not itself constrain archive entries or links to its temporary directory before trusting the extracted root. Whether the external extraction tools provide sufficient containment remains unverified; an out-of-directory write has not been demonstrated.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred β€” The changed interpretation affects installations consuming suffixless source, resource, or cask archives, with filesystem effects under the installing process's authority. The evidence does not establish a broader service or tenant boundary.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • inferred β€” A crafted suffixless archive can now supply entries to an extractor where it previously remained one file. An escape would depend on extractor handling of paths or links; no such escape, or independently attacker-writable checksum-pinned source, was verified.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed β€” Checksum verification precedes formula and resource staging, while the shim's temporary directory separates extraction from target copying. Neither check in the inspected shim validates the paths or links inside an accepted archive.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • inferred β€” Newly accepted suffixless archives inherit the existing non-atomic target-copy and failure-cleanup behavior. That matters to containment if an interrupted stage leaves partial content for a later installation step.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed β€” Establish and verify extraction containment for paths and links across both extractor implementations, then keep temporary cleanup and target publication safe on failure.
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- Line 2114: Update the tar detection check in `stage_source` to validate the
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[Medium risk] Changes how downloaded archives are detected and unpacked.

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Summary

The PR adds content-based archive detection when a download name has no recognized extension.

  • Formula sources and cask archives can unpack suffixless ZIP and tar archives.
  • The Ruby staging shim adds a content fallback for formula resources, with tests covering suffixless archives and raw files.

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- Around line 110-111: Replace the four-byte ZIP signature check in the archive
unpacking flow with an `unzip -t` probe so valid ZIPs with prepended stubs are
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Formula sources were staged by file name alone. A URL such as GitHub's
`https://codeload.github.com/<owner>/<repo>/tar.gz/refs/tags/v0.0.23` has no
extension, so `ExtractionFormat::from_file_name` returned `Raw` and the tarball
was copied into the build directory unextracted. The formula's `install` then
ran against a lone gzip file, e.g. `go build` failing with "go.mod file not
found". `brew` handles these by falling back to the file's content when the
name is inconclusive.

This surfaced building `cf-vault` from the `jacobbednarz/tap` formula, whose
`url` is exactly such a codeload URL:

https://github.com/jacobbednarz/homebrew-tap/blob/b03141211969573bb4b4fcc9c3016ba04e5898ec/Formula/cf-vault.rb

Add `ExtractionFormat::detect`, which keeps the name's verdict when it has
one and otherwise sniffs the leading bytes via `ExtractionFormat::from_magic`:
zip, or a gzip/xz/bzip2/zstd/plain stream whose payload opens with a ustar
header. Requiring the tar header keeps bare compressed files and binaries
staged as-is. Formula source staging uses it, and it replaces the cask
fetcher's zip-only `detect_extraction_format`, so suffixless tarballs in casks
are unpacked too rather than copied as a raw binary.

The shim's `MiseDownload.unpack`, which stages formula resources, had the
same name-only check; it now falls back to the zip magic or a `tar tf` probe.
The shim stages formula `resource`s itself through `MiseDownload.unpack`, so
its zip/`tar tf` fallback for extensionless URLs was only exercised by hand.
Run the real shim against a formula whose resources are a suffixless gzip
tarball, a plain script and an empty file, and check the keg contents. The
download cache is pre-seeded, so `MiseDownload.fetch` never reaches the
network.

The shim needs Ruby 3 or later (it uses endless methods), so the test reuses
`tap.rs`'s `test_ruby()`, now shared as a `#[cfg(test)]` helper, instead of a
bare `which ruby` that could find macOS's system Ruby 2.6.
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### πŸš€ Features

- **(config)** support global local miserc overrides by @jdx in
[#13778](#13778)
- **(config)** auto-install unconfigured registry bins on command not
found by @jdx in [#13781](#13781)
- **(dotfiles)** identify history commits by machine by @jdx in
[#13791](#13791)
- **(install)** allow tool postinstall on every install by @jdx in
[#13789](#13789)
- **(lock)** warn when old lockfile formats are overdue for upgrade by
@jdx in [#13779](#13779)
- **(self-update)** apply minimum release age to mise updates and
installs by @jdx in [#13782](#13782)
- **(self-update)** verify packslips against the mise repository ID by
@jdx in [#13785](#13785)

### πŸ› Bug Fixes

- **(backend)** preserve Go install errors for resolved versions by @jdx
in [#13794](#13794)
- **(brew)** prepend the shim's `Pathname#write` override by
@jacobbednarz in [#13760](#13760)
- **(brew)** define Homebrew's Language::* mixins in both shims by
@waynehoover in [#13328](#13328)
- **(brew)** unpack source archives whose URL names no extension by
@jacobbednarz in [#13750](#13750)
- **(config)** keep edited configs untrusted with --yes in paranoid mode
by @jdx in [#13796](#13796)
- **(npm)** pass minimum release age in kebab-case for pnpm 12 by
@Nagato-Yuzuru in [#13764](#13764)
- **(upgrade)** bump same-prefix exact releases by @ryoikarashi in
[#13759](#13759)

### 🚜 Refactor

- **(self-update)** use native downloads and signature verification by
@jdx in [#13783](#13783)

### πŸ“š Documentation

- replace the theme song with the mise run music video by @jdx in
[#13799](#13799)

### πŸ§ͺ Testing

- **(dotfiles)** fix flaky timeout in retrack prompt test by @jdx in
[#13772](#13772)
- **(pipx)** exercise extras with a smaller CLI fixture by @jdx in
[#13775](#13775)
- **(upgrade)** cover --bump keeping short versions short by @jdx in
[#13773](#13773)

### πŸ“¦οΈ Dependency Updates

- refresh markdownlint-cli's locked dependencies by @jdx in
[#13769](#13769)
- update gix to 0.88 by @jdx in
[#13771](#13771)
- lock file maintenance by @renovate[bot] in
[#13767](#13767)
- update jdx crates to v6.12.0 by @renovate[bot] in
[#13790](#13790)

### πŸ“¦ Registry

- prefer signed packslips for timoni and worktrunk by @jdx in
[#13780](#13780)

### Chore

- **(entire)** store mise checkpoints in a private repository by @jdx in
[e5c1488](e5c1488)
- **(entire)** commit codex session hooks by @jdx in
[7300964](7300964)
- **(entire)** commit claude session hooks by @jdx in
[ad720ea](ad720ea)
- **(entire)** restore lower-cost trail findings by @jdx in
[b979550](b979550)

### Ci

- enable mr-boxington caching for unit-macos by @jdx in
[#13776](#13776)
- report release checks for stacked pull requests by @jdx in
[#13786](#13786)
- allow publishing docs via workflow_dispatch by @jdx in
[#13800](#13800)

### New Contributors

- @ryoikarashi made their first contribution in
[#13759](#13759)

## πŸ“¦ Aqua Registry Updates

### New Packages (1)

- [`jdx/packslip`](https://github.com/jdx/packslip)
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