bitrix24

MEDIUM
maintainer Ganin 8 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from dl.bitrix24.com, which is the official Bitrix24 vendor CDN (same company as bitrix24.com). The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks at rest. However, the URL is a 'latest' redirect (bitrix24_desktop.deb without a version in the path), meaning the downloaded file could change between when the checksum was recorded and when a user builds — though makepkg will catch any mismatch. The real concern is that this is a closed-source Electron-style desktop application binary extracted directly from a vendor .deb and installed into /opt, with no source code review possible. The host is the official vendor domain, not a personal or unofficial mirror, so this is standard practice for proprietary AUR packages (similar to google-chrome, slack, zoom, etc.). The sha256 pin provides integrity protection. This pattern is common and accepted in the AUR for proprietary software. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is a marginal false positive — this is the official vendor host with a pinned checksum — but the executed binary nature of the payload keeps it from being fully 'clean'. Downgrading to medium is defensible only because of the non-versioned URL (floating latest), which means the pinned sha256 is the only guard against receiving a different binary than expected.

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=("bitrix24_desktop-${pkgver}.deb::https://dl.bitrix24.com/b24/bitrix24_desktop.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 binary .deb from dl.bitrix24.com, which is the official Bitrix24 vendor CDN (same company as bitrix24.com). The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks at rest. However, the URL is a 'latest' redirect (bitrix24_desktop.deb without a version in the path), meaning the downloaded file could change between when the checksum was recorded and when a user builds — though makepkg will catch any mismatch. The real concern is that this is a closed-source Electron-style desktop application binary extracted directly from a vendor .deb and installed into /opt, with no source code review possible. The host is the official vendor domain, not a personal or unofficial mirror, so this is standard practice for proprietary AUR packages (similar to google-chrome, slack, zoom, etc.). The sha256 pin provides integrity protection. This pattern is common and accepted in the AUR for proprietary software. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is a marginal false positive — this is the official vendor host with a pinned checksum — but the executed binary nature of the payload keeps it from being fully 'clean'. Downgrading to medium is defensible only because of the non-versioned URL (floating latest), which means the pinned sha256 is the only guard against receiving a different binary than expected.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Alex Ganin <alex at ganin dot tech>
2# Maintainer: Andrew Shark <ashark at linuxcomp dot ru>
3# Maintainer: Evandro Begati <evandroalb at gmail dot com>
4
5pkgname=bitrix24
6pkgver=22.0.28.91
7pkgrel=2
8pkgdesc="Bitrix24 unified workspace app (CRM, comms, tasks, and more)"
9arch=("x86_64")
10url="https://www.bitrix24.com/apps/desktop.php"
11license=("custom")
12source=("bitrix24_desktop-${pkgver}.deb::https://dl.bitrix24.com/b24/bitrix24_desktop.deb")
13sha256sums=("a5c947100d1e18c2a7362dc535a6967e03f031e476ef87fc057d04d823553942")
14
15depends=(gtk3 libxss libappindicator-gtk3 nss alsa-lib libx11 glibc)
16
17package() {
18 tar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
19
20 chmod -R a+rX "${pkgdir}"/opt/Bitrix24
21 chmod -R a+rX "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications
22 chmod -R a+rX "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/icons
23
24 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
25 for _x in Bitrix24-web Bitrix24 BDisk; do
26 ln -s "/opt/Bitrix24/$_x" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/$_x"
27 done
28}
29

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Medium 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Medium 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Medium 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Medium 2
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Medium 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Medium 2
2026-10-26 00:12:40 Medium 2
2026-10-25 00:20:48 Medium 2
2026-10-24 00:14:55 Medium 2
2026-10-23 00:02:19 Medium 2
2026-10-22 00:13:10 Medium 2
2026-10-21 00:12:50 Medium 2
2026-10-20 00:10:31 Medium 2
2026-10-19 00:03:55 Medium 2
2026-10-18 00:06:55 Medium 2
2026-10-17 00:21:55 Medium 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Medium 2
2026-10-15 00:28:05 Medium 2
2026-10-14 00:06:47 Medium 2
2026-10-13 00:23:45 Medium 2

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