caido-desktop

MEDIUM
maintainer SysAdm 5 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a non-standard host (caido.download), which is not a widely recognized or whitelisted domain, and the checksum is provided but the source is an unverifiable binary executable that could be silently replaced.

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=("https://caido.download/releases/v${pkgver}/caido-desktop-v${pkgver}-linux-x86_64.AppImage")
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a non-standard host (caido.download), which is not a widely recognized or whitelisted domain, and the checksum is provided but the source is an unverifiable binary executable that could be silently replaced.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: SysAdm <sysadm.archlinux@proton.me>
2# Contributor: Asuka Minato
3pkgname=caido-desktop
4pkgver=0.59.0
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="A lightweight web security auditing toolkit."
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://caido.io/"
9license=('private')
10depends=(glibc gcc-libs)
11provides=(caido)
12source=("https://caido.download/releases/v${pkgver}/caido-desktop-v${pkgver}-linux-x86_64.AppImage")
13sha256sums=('a4f172eb9a23c8c14356a9efd09b7fa93b30a9fa09e172a60af7f229cdc920a5')
14
15prepare() {
16 chmod +x *.AppImage
17 ./*.AppImage --appimage-extract
18 mv squashfs-root/ ${srcdir}/build
19}
20
21package() {
22 install -dm 755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
23 install -dm 755 "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname"
24
25 cp -a "${srcdir}/build/usr/share" "$pkgdir"
26 cp -aR "${srcdir}/build"/* "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/"
27 ln -s "/opt/$pkgname/caido" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$provides"
28 find "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
29
30 sed -i 's|Exec=AppRun --no-sandbox %U|Exec=caido|' "build/caido.desktop"
31 install -Dm 644 "build/caido.desktop" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/"
32 install -Dm 644 "build/caido.png" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/"
33}
34

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-26 00:12
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
# Maintainer: SysAdm <sysadm.archlinux@proton.me>
# Contributor: Asuka Minato
pkgname=caido-desktop
-pkgver=0.58.3
+pkgver=0.59.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A lightweight web security auditing toolkit."
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
depends=(glibc gcc-libs)
provides=(caido)
source=("https://caido.download/releases/v${pkgver}/caido-desktop-v${pkgver}-linux-x86_64.AppImage")
-sha256sums=('25e723aae34ce79d0cb2ac69e8537ec0baf1e1096d4f3c2919df7858efeed1d2')
+sha256sums=('a4f172eb9a23c8c14356a9efd09b7fa93b30a9fa09e172a60af7f229cdc920a5')
prepare() {
chmod +x *.AppImage

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
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2026-10-27 00:23:28 Medium 2
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2026-10-26 00:12:40 Medium 2
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2026-10-17 00:21:55 Medium 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Medium 2
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