brisk

MEDIUM

maintainer aminbhst 5 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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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
2026-09-17 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