betblocker

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from betblocker.org/front/download/2 — a non-versioned, opaque URL on the project's own domain — and extracts it directly into the package root. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against a known-good hash, which mitigates the risk of silent substitution somewhat, but the URL is not a versioned/tagged release artifact (it's a generic download endpoint that could serve different content over time without changing the URL). The installed artifact is a prebuilt Electron application binary (/opt/BetBlocker/BetBlocker) that runs with user privileges. The host is the official project domain (betblocker.org), not a personal or third-party host, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain concern. The non-versioned download URL is the main concern: if the maintainer doesn't update the PKGBUILD when upstream changes the binary, the sha256sum check would catch it, but the URL itself gives no version guarantee. Overall this is a legitimate medium-risk pattern: prebuilt binary from the official vendor site with a checksum, but via a non-versioned endpoint.

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:20 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://betblocker.org/front/download/2"

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 from betblocker.org/front/download/2 — a non-versioned, opaque URL on the project's own domain — and extracts it directly into the package root. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against a known-good hash, which mitigates the risk of silent substitution somewhat, but the URL is not a versioned/tagged release artifact (it's a generic download endpoint that could serve different content over time without changing the URL). The installed artifact is a prebuilt Electron application binary (/opt/BetBlocker/BetBlocker) that runs with user privileges. The host is the official project domain (betblocker.org), not a personal or third-party host, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain concern. The non-versioned download URL is the main concern: if the maintainer doesn't update the PKGBUILD when upstream changes the binary, the sha256sum check would catch it, but the URL itself gives no version guarantee. Overall this is a legitimate medium-risk pattern: prebuilt binary from the official vendor site with a checksum, but via a non-versioned endpoint.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer:  Dimitris Kiziridis <ragouel at outlook dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=betblocker
    
      4pkgver=2.1.2
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A free tool to help you control your gambling"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://betblocker.org"
    
      9license=("custom:${pkgname}")
    
      10depends=('nodejs-js-yaml'
    
      11         'libnotify'
    
      12         'nss'
    
      13         'libxss'
    
      14         'xdg-utils'
    
      15         'uuid'
    
      16         'libappindicator-gtk3'
    
      17         'libsecret')
    
      18makedepends=('tar')
    
      19options=('!strip')
    
      20source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://betblocker.org/front/download/2"
    
      21        'LICENSE')
    
      22sha256sums=('b4aa86e0d8cf8f96fc47adbf925fd90bd98368fcc06f0ec1062548346b6619c6'
    
      23            'c1a90c883551985f77391e693c6615e5b0e4e408d21bbfb9f90d4f03f0654c73')
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26  tar xvf "${srcdir}/data.tar.xz" -C "${pkgdir}/"
    
      27  install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      28  install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      29  ln -sf '/opt/BetBlocker/BetBlocker' "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/betblocker"
    
      30  cd "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc"
    
      31  mv bet-blocker betblocker
    
      32}
    
      33

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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