aurora-timetable

MEDIUM
maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt .deb binary package from timetable-software.com (the project's own domain) and installs a Java application from it. There is no prepare() step to unpack the .deb before package(), which means data.tar.gz must be extracted elsewhere (likely in a prepare() that's missing, or the build relies on the .deb being auto-unpacked — this is actually a functional issue). The core concern is that a prebuilt binary JAR/application is pulled from a third-party host with only a sha256 checksum for integrity. The host appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site matching the url= field, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain risk. The sha256sum pins the specific artifact, providing some protection against substitution. This is a standard pattern for AUR packages wrapping proprietary or upstream-distributed binaries, and the domain matches the upstream project URL. The risk is real but typical for this class of AUR package — not clearly malicious, but an executed binary from a non-Arch-official host. Rating remains medium. Note: the PKGBUILD also appears broken since data.tar.gz is never extracted from the .deb in the shown code (no ar/unpack step), but that is a separate functional issue.

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 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://timetable-software.com/download/aurora-orarend_${pkgver}-1.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 .deb binary package from timetable-software.com (the project's own domain) and installs a Java application from it. There is no prepare() step to unpack the .deb before package(), which means data.tar.gz must be extracted elsewhere (likely in a prepare() that's missing, or the build relies on the .deb being auto-unpacked — this is actually a functional issue). The core concern is that a prebuilt binary JAR/application is pulled from a third-party host with only a sha256 checksum for integrity. The host appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site matching the url= field, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain risk. The sha256sum pins the specific artifact, providing some protection against substitution. This is a standard pattern for AUR packages wrapping proprietary or upstream-distributed binaries, and the domain matches the upstream project URL. The risk is real but typical for this class of AUR package — not clearly malicious, but an executed binary from a non-Arch-official host. Rating remains medium. Note: the PKGBUILD also appears broken since data.tar.gz is never extracted from the .deb in the shown code (no ar/unpack step), but that is a separate functional issue.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Dimitris Kiziridis <ragouel at outlook dot com>
2
3pkgname=aurora-timetable
4pkgver=0.13.0
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="A timetable generator and editor application, mainly for elementary and high schools"
7arch=('any')
8url='https://timetable-software.com'
9provides=('aurora-orarend')
10license=('Apache')
11depends=('java-runtime>=8'
12 'bash'
13 'hicolor-icon-theme')
14makedepends=('tar')
15source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://timetable-software.com/download/aurora-orarend_${pkgver}-1.deb")
16sha256sums=('3af580c59dda8699d26ad06a9237898614967fd7f63558a7305a5d2cadee1dd7')
17
18package() {
19 tar xvf data.tar.gz -C "${pkgdir}/"
20 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java"
21 mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/aurora-orarend" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/"
22 sed -i "3s|aurora-orarend|java/aurora-orarend|" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/aurora-orarend"
23}

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-09-17 00:27:14 Medium 2
2026-09-16 00:03:17 Medium 2
2026-09-15 00:25:31 Medium 2
2026-09-14 00:27:57 Medium 2
2026-09-13 00:19:54 Medium 2
2026-09-12 00:25:17 Medium 2
2026-09-11 00:19:22 Medium 2
2026-09-10 00:22:44 Medium 2
2026-09-09 00:04:09 Medium 2
2026-09-08 00:18:08 Medium 2
2026-09-07 00:30:15 Medium 2
2026-09-06 00:17:06 Medium 2
2026-09-05 00:16:27 Medium 2
2026-09-04 00:03:13 Medium 2
2026-09-03 00:15:47 Medium 2
2026-09-02 00:02:31 Medium 2
2026-09-01 00:11:19 Medium 2
2026-08-31 00:19:57 Medium 2
2026-08-30 00:04:14 Medium 2
2026-08-29 00:29:17 Medium 2

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