cgm-life-dataexport

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt .deb from docs.cgmlife.com, which is a vendor-controlled but non-standard distribution host (not a major distro mirror or well-known CDN). The package installs a bundled Java application with executable JARs and a launcher script. A sha512sum is provided, which pins the specific binary, mitigating opportunistic substitution — but only for this exact version; future updates could silently introduce a different binary. The domain cgmlife.com appears to be the legitimate CGM Life / Clickdoc health data service (CGM = CompuGroup Medical), so this is not an obviously rogue host. However, the package does execute code from a proprietary binary pulled from a non-standard host with no GPG signature verification, which is the classic medium supply-chain pattern. The PKGBUILD itself is well-structured and the maintainer explicitly strips the bundled JRE in favor of system OpenJDK/OpenJFX, which is a positive sign of care. Overall: genuine medium risk due to unverified binary from a non-mainstream host, but not elevated to high because the domain is plausibly the legitimate upstream vendor and checksums are present.

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:20 "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://docs.cgmlife.com/LIFEExportDesktopClient/PROD/${pkgname}-desktop-${pkgver}.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 .deb from docs.cgmlife.com, which is a vendor-controlled but non-standard distribution host (not a major distro mirror or well-known CDN). The package installs a bundled Java application with executable JARs and a launcher script. A sha512sum is provided, which pins the specific binary, mitigating opportunistic substitution — but only for this exact version; future updates could silently introduce a different binary. The domain cgmlife.com appears to be the legitimate CGM Life / Clickdoc health data service (CGM = CompuGroup Medical), so this is not an obviously rogue host. However, the package does execute code from a proprietary binary pulled from a non-standard host with no GPG signature verification, which is the classic medium supply-chain pattern. The PKGBUILD itself is well-structured and the maintainer explicitly strips the bundled JRE in favor of system OpenJDK/OpenJFX, which is a positive sign of care. Overall: genuine medium risk due to unverified binary from a non-mainstream host, but not elevated to high because the domain is plausibly the legitimate upstream vendor and checksums are present.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Claudia Pellegrino <aur ät cpellegrino.de>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=cgm-life-dataexport
    
      4pkgver=1.5.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='Personal data exporter for Clickdoc (formerly CGM Life) accounts'
    
      7arch=('any')
    
      8url='https://one.cgm.com/clickdoc'
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-unknown')
    
      10_java=21
    
      11depends=(
    
      12  'bash'
    
      13  "java-openjfx=${_java}"  # provided by e.g. java21-openjfx or java21-openjfx-bin (AUR)
    
      14  "java-runtime-openjdk=${_java}"
    
      15)
    
      16makedepends=('dpkg' 'jq' 'python-j2cli')
    
      17options=('!debug' '!strip')
    
      18
    
      19source=(
    
      20  "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://docs.cgmlife.com/LIFEExportDesktopClient/PROD/${pkgname}-desktop-${pkgver}.deb"
    
      21  "${pkgname}.bash.j2"
    
      22  "${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      23)
    
      24
    
      25sha512sums=(
    
      26  '86e7fd805bbff930233bb8530a2bb233c861d5129056ac001799f0a315125da59c01b6f431616fa047761dbaed401a773226024b06c3d47e744fe250b4b052e9'
    
      27  '00a28686c9be3aa4e0cf29efdf4063b274720dfbe0193a30dc2b4e7122693b67817d6915e169a6689bbd1f3c934899b358edcb3a76d14800ca3c4be7ba8d9f3a'
    
      28  '65bf0d3ecb145fbcc07cd80b4a4a376f92aed0dd78ee03e20272299081da4bda2535abd955f875b289189c00687d22e7c4b774ff3d74573f065299cfc8821a61'
    
      29)
    
      30
    
      31prepare() {
    
      32  echo >&2 'Extracting upstream archive'
    
      33  dpkg-deb -x "${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb" "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      34
    
      35  echo >&2 'Asserting that bundled Java version matches depends entries'
    
      36  diff -u \
    
      37    --label 'Expected Java major version' <(echo "${_java}") \
    
      38    --label 'Actual Java major version' <(
    
      39      awk -F '"' -e '/JAVA_VERSION/ { print $2 }' \
    
      40        "${pkgname}-${pkgver}/opt/${pkgname}-desktop/lib/runtime/release" \
    
      41        | cut -d . -f 1
    
      42    )
    
      43
    
      44  echo >&2 'Preparing the launcher'
    
      45  jq -n \
    
      46    --arg java "${_java}" \
    
      47    --arg modulePath "$(
    
      48      echo /usr/lib/jvm/"java-${_java}-openjdk"/lib/javafx.{base,controls,fxml,graphics,media,web}.jar \
    
      49        | tr " " :
    
      50    )" \
    
      51    --arg modules "$(
    
      52      awk -F '"' -e '/MODULES/ { gsub(/\s/, ",", $2); print $2 }' \
    
      53        "${pkgname}-${pkgver}/opt/${pkgname}-desktop/lib/runtime/release"
    
      54    )" \
    
      55    --arg pkgver "${pkgver}" \
    
      56    '{ $java, $modulePath, $modules, $pkgver }' \
    
      57    | j2 -f json -o "${pkgname}-desktop" "${pkgname}.bash.j2" -
    
      58}
    
      59
    
      60package() {
    
      61  cd "${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      62
    
      63  echo >&2 'Packaging the license'
    
      64  install -D -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}" \
    
      65    "opt/${pkgname}-desktop/share/doc/copyright"
    
      66
    
      67  echo >&2 'Packaging application icon'
    
      68  install -D -m 644 -T \
    
      69    "opt/${pkgname}-desktop/lib/${pkgname}-desktop.png" \
    
      70    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${pkgname}.png"
    
      71
    
      72  echo >&2 'Packaging desktop file'
    
      73  install -D -m 644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications" \
    
      74    ../"${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      75
    
      76  echo >&2 'Packaging application files'
    
      77  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname}"
    
      78  cp -R --preserve=mode -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname}" \
    
      79    "opt/${pkgname}-desktop/lib/app" \
    
      80
    
      81  echo >&2 'Packaging the executable'
    
      82  install -D -m 755 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" ../"${pkgname}-desktop"
    
      83}
    
      84

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