From c581c84ff16150297fbc2507f803aa4f2adaa599 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pujitha Paladugu <pujitha.rathna@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2026 12:17:31 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(installer): repair OpenSSL fallback in hash_sha256
 (#5521)

Motivation: when gsha256sum, sha256sum and shasum are all absent but openssl
is available, install.sh fails checksum verification. The fallback ran
`openssl -dst openssl dgst -sha256`, which is an invalid command, and would
also have failed on `cut -d ' ' -f a`, an invalid field argument. The
installer exits 1 and installs nothing; checksum verification is not bypassed.

Approach: call `openssl dgst -sha256 "$TARGET"` and take the digest as the
last space-separated token of its "SHA256(file)= <digest>" output
(also "SHA2-256(...)" on OpenSSL 3.x), using POSIX parameter expansion.

Validation: added test_hash_sha256_openssl in test/install/0_checksums_test.sh,
which overrides is_command so only openssl is found and checks the digest of
the fixture archive (file and stdin). Running `sh 0_checksums_test.sh` in
test/install fails on the test before the change ("Invalid command '-dst'")
and passes after. Run on macOS with the system openssl only; the full
installer run from the issue and the container-based make targets were not run.

Report: https://github.com/anchore/syft/issues/5520

Assisted-by: claude-sonnet-5-5 (via Claude Code)

Signed-off-by: Pujitha Paladugu <10557236+pujitha24@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Pujitha Paladugu <10557236+pujitha24@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 install.sh                       |  5 +++--
 test/install/0_checksums_test.sh | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 88303e4f2..15188486a 100755
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -257,8 +257,9 @@ hash_sha256() (
     hash=$(shasum -a 256 "$TARGET" 2>/dev/null) || return 1
     echo "$hash" | cut -d ' ' -f 1
   elif is_command openssl; then
-    hash=$(openssl -dst openssl dgst -sha256 "$TARGET") || return 1
-    echo "$hash" | cut -d ' ' -f a
+    hash=$(openssl dgst -sha256 "$TARGET") || return 1
+    # output is "SHA256(<file>)= <digest>" (or "SHA2-256(...)" on OpenSSL 3.x)
+    echo "${hash##* }"
   else
     log_err "hash_sha256 unable to find command to compute sha-256 hash"
     return 1
diff --git a/test/install/0_checksums_test.sh b/test/install/0_checksums_test.sh
index 9257f55c9..0c691051f 100755
--- a/test/install/0_checksums_test.sh
+++ b/test/install/0_checksums_test.sh
@@ -53,6 +53,20 @@ test_hash_sha256() {
 
 run_test_case test_hash_sha256
 
+# verify 256 digest of a file when openssl is the only available hash tool
+test_hash_sha256_openssl() {
+  target=./testdata/assets/valid/syft_1.5.0_linux_arm64.tar.gz
+
+  # hide the other hash tools (within subshells) so that hash_sha256 falls back to openssl
+  actual=$(is_command() { [ "$1" = "openssl" ]; }; hash_sha256 "${target}")
+  assertEquals "8d57abb57a0dae3ff23c8f0df1f51951b7772822e0d560e860d6f68c24ef6d3d" "${actual}" "mismatched checksum"
+
+  actual=$(is_command() { [ "$1" = "openssl" ]; }; hash_sha256 < "${target}")
+  assertEquals "8d57abb57a0dae3ff23c8f0df1f51951b7772822e0d560e860d6f68c24ef6d3d" "${actual}" "mismatched checksum (stdin)"
+}
+
+run_test_case test_hash_sha256_openssl
+
 # verify 256 digest of a file relative to the checksums file
 test_hash_sha256_verify() {