astralrinth-app-bin

MEDIUM
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Why flagged

This package downloads and installs a prebuilt binary (.deb) from a personal/self-hosted Gitea instance (git.astralium.su) maintained by 'didirus', which is not the official Modrinth infrastructure or any well-known mirror. The binary (ModrinthApp) is extracted and installed directly to /opt and executed. While sha512sums are present providing integrity checking against tampering in transit, the trust anchor is entirely the maintainer's personal server — if that host is compromised or the maintainer is malicious, users would execute arbitrary code. This is a classic supply-chain concern for a binary-only AUR package from an unofficial personal host. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct: this is a real (if not clearly malicious) supply-chain risk due to the combination of an executed binary and a non-official hosting location.

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:15 "AstralRinth_App_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://git.astralium.su/didirus/AstralRinth/releases/download/AR-${pkgver}/AstralRinth%20App_${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 78%): This package downloads and installs a prebuilt binary (.deb) from a personal/self-hosted Gitea instance (git.astralium.su) maintained by 'didirus', which is not the official Modrinth infrastructure or any well-known mirror. The binary (ModrinthApp) is extracted and installed directly to /opt and executed. While sha512sums are present providing integrity checking against tampering in transit, the trust anchor is entirely the maintainer's personal server — if that host is compromised or the maintainer is malicious, users would execute arbitrary code. This is a classic supply-chain concern for a binary-only AUR package from an unofficial personal host. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is correct: this is a real (if not clearly malicious) supply-chain risk due to the combination of an executed binary and a non-official hosting location.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1pkgname=astralrinth-app-bin
2pkgver=0.10.304
3pkgrel=1
4pkgdesc="A fork of the Modrinth Launcher developed by didirus"
5arch=('x86_64')
6url="https://git.astralium.su/didirus/AstralRinth"
7license=('GPL-3.0-only')
8depends=('openssl-1.1' 'dbus' 'freetype2' 'gtk3' 'libappindicator-gtk3' 'librsvg' 'libsoup3' 'webkit2gtk-4.1' 'libgl' 'libpulse' 'libx11' 'libxcursor' 'libxext' 'libxxf86vm')
9optdepends=('xorg-xrandr: for older Minecraft versions')
10options=('!strip' '!emptydirs' '!debug')
11conflicts=('modrinth-app-bin' 'modrinth-app-git' 'modrinth-app' 'astralrinth-bin')
12install=${pkgname}.install
13
14source=(
15 "AstralRinth_App_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://git.astralium.su/didirus/AstralRinth/releases/download/AR-${pkgver}/AstralRinth%20App_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
16 "astralrinth-app"
17 "astralrinth-file-extensions.xml"
18)
19
20sha512sums=(
21 '2a1747e7a70bdf467f77211827fa855b0d5c6d25e2675406cf77a5dc8f11be43f2b8df72cedc90936b924e5279441fd0c88dafc486183e29db16b6d75fbee98f'
22 '9bd0a35204fb4bae20b0bec5382410556ce4eb3649c95b44fb6b4f852ac71526bace6a457d5f3e7c84e7959d24f9dc2a0c746af783d79c5d635b834991cec35a'
23 '38fedb2532850677ff638d5c7e20fbc78efc18b5deb26f77dfcc079b42f48f16473f0a27d7af183ef02ad3cd94729c86249bdac60b2bc1b25b47a1ebd2ba0c0d'
24)
25
26prepare() {
27 bsdtar -xf "${srcdir}/AstralRinth_App_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
28 tar -xf data.tar.*
29}
30
31package() {
32 cd "$srcdir"
33 install -Dm755 "usr/bin/ModrinthApp" "${pkgdir}/opt/astralrinth-app/astralrinth-app"
34 install -Dm755 "astralrinth-app" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/astralrinth-app"
35 install -Dm644 "astralrinth-file-extensions.xml" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/mime/packages/astralrinth-file-extensions.xml"
36 install -Dm644 "usr/share/applications/AstralRinth App.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/astralrinth-app.desktop"
37 sed -i -e 's|Exec=ModrinthApp|Exec=astralrinth-app %u|' -e 's|Icon=ModrinthApp|Icon=astralrinth-app|' "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/astralrinth-app.desktop"
38 install -Dm644 "usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ModrinthApp.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/astralrinth-app.png"
39}
40

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