brisk

MEDIUM

maintainer aminbhst 5 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from a GitHub Pages host (brisklydev.github.io) rather than from GitHub Releases or another canonical release mechanism. The binary is then installed as an executable at /opt/brisk/brisk and symlinked into /usr/bin. Two concerns: (1) GitHub Pages content is served from a separate, user-controlled static hosting domain that is distinct from GitHub's release artifact infrastructure — it is trivially easy for the maintainer to silently replace the hosted file without any version tag or commit reference anchoring it; (2) the checksum is set to SKIP, meaning there is zero integrity verification of the downloaded executable. Together these constitute a genuine supply-chain risk: a compromised or silently-swapped binary would be installed and executed with user privileges. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

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:18 source=("https://brisklydev.github.io/brisk/releases/aur/Brisk-v${pkgver}-linux-aur-x86_64.tar.xz")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary tarball from a GitHub Pages host (brisklydev.github.io) rather than from GitHub Releases or another canonical release mechanism. The binary is then installed as an executable at /opt/brisk/brisk and symlinked into /usr/bin. Two concerns: (1) GitHub Pages content is served from a separate, user-controlled static hosting domain that is distinct from GitHub's release artifact infrastructure — it is trivially easy for the maintainer to silently replace the hosted file without any version tag or commit reference anchoring it; (2) the checksum is set to SKIP, meaning there is zero integrity verification of the downloaded executable. Together these constitute a genuine supply-chain risk: a compromised or silently-swapped binary would be installed and executed with user privileges. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Amin Beheshti amin.bhst@gmail.com
    
      2pkgname=brisk
    
      3pkgver=2.3.8
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Ultra-fast, modern download manager (Official Release)"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/BrisklyDev/brisk"
    
      8license=('GPL3') 
    
      9depends=(
    
      10  'ayatana-ido'
    
      11  'gtk3'
    
      12  'libayatana-appindicator'
    
      13  'libayatana-indicator'
    
      14  'libkeybinder3'
    
      15)
    
      16
    
      17makedepends=('git')
    
      18source=("https://brisklydev.github.io/brisk/releases/aur/Brisk-v${pkgver}-linux-aur-x86_64.tar.xz")
    
      19md5sums=('SKIP')
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  install -d "$pkgdir/opt/brisk"
    
      23  cp -r "$srcdir/"* "$pkgdir/opt/brisk"
    
      24
    
      25  chmod +x "$pkgdir/opt/brisk/brisk"
    
      26
    
      27  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      28  ln -s /opt/brisk/brisk "$pkgdir/usr/bin/brisk"
    
      29
    
      30  sed -i \
    
      31    -e 's|^Exec=.*|Exec=/usr/bin/brisk|' \
    
      32    -e 's|^Icon=.*|Icon=brisk|' \
    
      33    "$srcdir/brisk.desktop"
    
      34
    
      35  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/brisk.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/brisk.desktop"
    
      36
    
      37  install -Dm644 "$srcdir/data/flutter_assets/assets/icons/logo-128.png" "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/brisk.png"
    
      38}
    
      39

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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