cartridge-sampler-bin

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary archive (VST3/LV2 plugins) from Google Drive, which is an unofficial, user-controlled host rather than a verified vendor release server. While a sha256sum is provided, Google Drive links can be silently replaced by the file owner without changing the URL, making the checksum the only integrity guarantee — and that checksum was presumably set by the same maintainer who controls the Drive file. The plugins are installed directly into /usr/lib/vst3 and /usr/lib/lv2 as executed code loaded by DAWs. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: a prebuilt binary from a personal cloud storage host with no reproducibility or independent verification. The risk is real but not clearly malicious, fitting the medium classification.

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:13 source=("Cartridge-v0.7.0-linux.zip::https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1vjEXgd1LSbT0q8yZcRh2VGB6OmNBu2M3&export=download&authuser=1")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary archive (VST3/LV2 plugins) from Google Drive, which is an unofficial, user-controlled host rather than a verified vendor release server. While a sha256sum is provided, Google Drive links can be silently replaced by the file owner without changing the URL, making the checksum the only integrity guarantee — and that checksum was presumably set by the same maintainer who controls the Drive file. The plugins are installed directly into /usr/lib/vst3 and /usr/lib/lv2 as executed code loaded by DAWs. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: a prebuilt binary from a personal cloud storage host with no reproducibility or independent verification. The risk is real but not clearly malicious, fitting the medium classification.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Olivia Mackintosh <liv@base.nu>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=cartridge-sampler-bin
    
      4pkgver=0.7.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A versatile sampler/slicer built around four playback modes — from quick one-shots to fully sliced loops with MIDI export. Works in any modern DAW, with extra integration goodies for Reaper."
    
      7arch=(x86_64)
    
      8url="https://dsgdnb.com/plugins/cartridge"
    
      9license=()
    
      10groups=(vst3-plugins lv2-plugins)
    
      11makedepends=(git)
    
      12provides=(cartridge-sampler)
    
      13source=("Cartridge-v0.7.0-linux.zip::https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1vjEXgd1LSbT0q8yZcRh2VGB6OmNBu2M3&export=download&authuser=1")
    
      14sha256sums=('0ba19de19c68b708ce9e6313647c00229370d46c9dd338cd51b84562287de965')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/lib/{vst3,lv2}
    
      18  cp -r LV2/* $pkgdir/usr/lib/lv2/
    
      19  cp -r VST3/* $pkgdir/usr/lib/vst3/
    
      20}
    
      21

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