beersmith2

MEDIUM
maintainer marker5a 3 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

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.

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_x86_64=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/beersmith$_major-$_minor/BeerSmith-${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 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
1# Contributor: Doug Newgard <scimmia at archlinux dot org>
2# Contributor: Greg Greenaae <ggreenaae@gmail.com>
3
4pkgname=beersmith2
5pkgver=2.3.12
6_series=${pkgver%.*} _minor=${_series##*.} _major=${_series%%.*}
7pkgrel=4
8pkgdesc='Complete software suite for brewers'
9arch=('x86_64')
10url='https://beersmith.com'
11license=('commercial')
12source_x86_64=("https://s3.amazonaws.com/beersmith$_major-$_minor/BeerSmith-${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
13sha256sums_x86_64=('2b67b7c232e2b0a9a6e08826c33ea0e0c02772b0ffa542bbdeb8fa7d9706f5e1')
14
15package() {
16 depends=('cairo' 'gcc-libs' 'gdk-pixbuf2' 'glib2' 'glibc' 'gtk2'
17 'libsm' 'libx11' 'libxxf86vm' 'libpng12' 'pango' 'webkit2gtk' 'zlib')
18
19 bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
20
21 rm -r "$pkgdir"{/etc/,/usr/share/menu/}
22 install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
23 ln -sr "$pkgdir/usr/share/BeerSmith$_major/license.rtf" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/"
24}
25

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2026-11-01 00:21:48 Medium 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Medium 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Medium 2
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2026-10-27 00:23:28 Medium 2
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