asset-manager-studio

maintainer naetherm · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb directly from the project's own website (assetmanager.studio) and installs it without extracting or inspecting the contents beyond unpacking data.tar.xz. The sha256 checksum provides integrity verification against the specific file, but the host is a small/personal project site rather than a well-known distribution channel (GitHub releases, official distro repos, etc.). If the host were compromised or the maintainer replaced the binary at the same URL, users would receive arbitrary code executed with package installation privileges. The symlink creation and bsdtar extraction are standard .deb unpacking patterns. This is a legitimate supply-chain concern (prebuilt binary from a low-trust host) but not evidence of active malice, keeping it at MEDIUM rather than HIGH.

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:13 source=("https://assetmanager.studio/dl/${pkgver}/asset-manager-studio_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

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 .deb directly from the project's own website (assetmanager.studio) and installs it without extracting or inspecting the contents beyond unpacking data.tar.xz. The sha256 checksum provides integrity verification against the specific file, but the host is a small/personal project site rather than a well-known distribution channel (GitHub releases, official distro repos, etc.). If the host were compromised or the maintainer replaced the binary at the same URL, users would receive arbitrary code executed with package installation privileges. The symlink creation and bsdtar extraction are standard .deb unpacking patterns. This is a legitimate supply-chain concern (prebuilt binary from a low-trust host) but not evidence of active malice, keeping it at MEDIUM rather than HIGH.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: naetherm
    
      2pkgname=asset-manager-studio
    
      3pkgver=1.2.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Project, Engine, Asset management for Epic UnrealEngine.  Manage, Download, install assets from Fab, Quixel, Cosmos to Unreal Engine"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://assetmanager.studio/"
    
      8license=('APACHE')
    
      9depends=()
    
      10optdepends=()
    
      11provides=('asset-manager-studio')
    
      12conflicts=('asset-manager-studio')
    
      13source=("https://assetmanager.studio/dl/${pkgver}/asset-manager-studio_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      14sha256sums=('d275ccd2fb1b33223218c686b6c43755b342a731d7d2338971f44e6e6fa05cdb')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  bsdtar -xf "$srcdir/data.tar.xz" -C "$pkgdir"
    
      18  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      19  ln -s "/opt/Asset Manager Studio/${pkgname}" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      20}
    
      21

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
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