arc-bin

maintainer scottapotamas · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged This PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary ('arc') from registry.eui.io, which is the Electric UI project's own package registry (matching the maintainer's email domain @electricui.com and the official URL electricui.com). The host is not a well-known, independently audited distribution channel (like GitHub releases or an official distro mirror), but it does appear to be the vendor's own infrastructure. The binary is executed directly and installed to /usr/bin. The sha256 checksum provides integrity verification against tampering in transit, but does not protect against the upstream host serving a malicious binary. Since this is a prebuilt binary from a non-standard host (even if it is the vendor's own registry), it represents a genuine supply-chain concern: if registry.eui.io is compromised or the maintainer's control over it lapses, a malicious binary could be distributed. This is a textbook medium-severity case: not clearly malicious, but a real concern due to the executed binary from a non-mainstream 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:12 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://registry.eui.io/arc/${pkgver}/arc_${pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz"
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD downloads and installs a prebuilt binary ('arc') from registry.eui.io, which is the Electric UI project's own package registry (matching the maintainer's email domain @electricui.com and the official URL electricui.com). The host is not a well-known, independently audited distribution channel (like GitHub releases or an official distro mirror), but it does appear to be the vendor's own infrastructure. The binary is executed directly and installed to /usr/bin. The sha256 checksum provides integrity verification against tampering in transit, but does not protect against the upstream host serving a malicious binary. Since this is a prebuilt binary from a non-standard host (even if it is the vendor's own registry), it represents a genuine supply-chain concern: if registry.eui.io is compromised or the maintainer's control over it lapses, a malicious binary could be distributed. This is a textbook medium-severity case: not clearly malicious, but a real concern due to the executed binary from a non-mainstream host.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Scott Rapson <scott@electricui.com>
2
3pkgname="arc-bin"
4pkgver=0.5.8
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="CLI helper for Electric UI project creation, sandbox development and building releases."
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://electricui.com/"
9license=('custom')
10optdepends=('nodejs: Electric UI projects run on node')
11provides=('arc')
12source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://registry.eui.io/arc/${pkgver}/arc_${pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz"
13 "LICENSE"
14)
15sha256sums=('690a3018f4c77e367fd63bcebf3ffac324ca472c80553dde08714a287bf65517'
16 '2eb92ca0796a09ccb80ccf5a55c5513bcbd840407da149edcb4a1073db8aa60e'
17)
18
19package() {
20 install -Dm755 "$srcdir"/arc -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
21 install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
22}
23

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