beersmith2
Triggered rules
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:12
source_x86_64=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/beersmith$_major-$_minor/BeerSmith-${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
llm_review
An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from an Amazon S3 bucket (s3.amazonaws.com/beersmith2-3/...) which is the vendor's own distribution channel for BeerSmith — this is a common pattern for small ISVs who host releases on S3 rather than a traditional download server. The sha256sum is pinned, so integrity is verified against a known hash. However, the S3 bucket is not the canonical beersmith.com domain, and there is no way to verify the bucket is controlled by the vendor vs. a third party. The package installs a prebuilt proprietary binary directly, which is the core supply-chain concern: if the S3 bucket were compromised or the bucket name were squatted, a malicious binary could be distributed. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain risk (executed binary from a non-canonical host), not a false positive, though it is also a common and widely-accepted AUR pattern for proprietary software distributed via S3.
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Contributor: Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux dot org>
# Contributor: Greg Greenaae <ggreenaae@gmail.com>
pkgname=beersmith2
pkgver=2.3.12
_series=${pkgver%.*} _minor=${_series##*.} _major=${_series%%.*}
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc='Complete software suite for brewers'
arch=('x86_64')
url='https://beersmith.com'
license=('commercial')
source_x86_64=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/beersmith$_major-$_minor/BeerSmith-${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
sha256sums_x86_64=('2b67b7c232e2b0a9a6e08826c33ea0e0c02772b0ffa542bbdeb8fa7d9706f5e1')
package() {
depends=('cairo' 'gcc-libs' 'gdk-pixbuf2' 'glib2' 'glibc' 'gtk2'
'libsm' 'libx11' 'libxxf86vm' 'libpng12' 'pango' 'webkit2gtk' 'zlib')
bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
rm -r "$pkgdir"{/etc/,/usr/share/menu/}
install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
ln -sr "$pkgdir/usr/share/BeerSmith$_major/license.rtf" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
}
Scan history
| Scanned at (UTC) | Severity | Rules |
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| 2026-08-03 00:08:14 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-08-02 00:16:08 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-08-01 00:11:18 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-31 00:14:10 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-30 00:17:23 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-29 00:25:53 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-28 00:07:28 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-27 00:24:32 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-26 00:07:32 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-25 00:13:44 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-24 00:02:28 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-23 00:14:47 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-22 00:29:32 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-21 00:24:15 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-20 00:19:49 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-19 00:17:08 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-18 00:14:48 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-17 00:06:16 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-16 00:05:41 | MEDIUM | 2 |
| 2026-07-15 00:09:25 | MEDIUM | 2 |