chatbox-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer richin13 13 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 (download.chatboxai.app) which is not a common code hosting platform, posing a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or the download is swapped, though the AppImage is checksummed.

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:21 source=("https://download.chatboxai.app/releases/${_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 (download.chatboxai.app) which is not a common code hosting platform, posing a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or the download is swapped, though the AppImage is checksummed.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Contributor: redponike <proton (dot) me>
    
      2# Contributor: Frederik Holm Strøm <aur@frederikstroem.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Asuka Minato <i at asukaminato dot eu dot org>
    
      4# Contributor: Aron Young <tkf6fkt at gmail dot com>
    
      5# Contributor: Ricardo Madriz <richin13 at gmail dot com>
    
      6
    
      7_pkgname=Chatbox
    
      8pkgname="chatbox-bin"
    
      9pkgver=1.23.5
    
      10pkgrel=1
    
      11pkgdesc="User-friendly Desktop Client App for AI Models/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama...)"
    
      12arch=('x86_64')
    
      13url="https://chatboxai.app"
    
      14license=('GPL-3.0')
    
      15depends=('fuse2')
    
      16provides=("$pkgname")
    
      17conflicts=("chatbox-bin" "chatbox-git")
    
      18options=(!strip)
    
      19_appimage="${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-${arch}.AppImage"
    
      20_pkgid="xyz.chatboxapp.app"
    
      21source=("https://download.chatboxai.app/releases/${_appimage}")
    
      22noextract=("$_appimage")
    
      23sha512sums=('a07153ac751f09452d1545f82b0e822ce1207c24633b74f37676892d5437ad693376c3f55d24de76e0c63139650317c179844ca3c15dc380a6fd3ce11cd1e595')
    
      24
    
      25prepare() {
    
      26    # Make the AppImage executable
    
      27    chmod +x "$_appimage"
    
      28
    
      29    # Extract the AppImage
    
      30    "./$_appimage" --appimage-extract
    
      31
    
      32    # Update the Exec line in the desktop entry file and fix the icon.
    
      33    sed -i -E "s:Exec=AppRun:Exec=/opt/${_pkgname}/${_appimage}:" "squashfs-root/${_pkgid}.desktop"
    
      34    sed -i -E "s:StartupWMClass=Chatbox:StartupWMClass=${_pkgid}:" "squashfs-root/${_pkgid}.desktop"
    
      35}
    
      36
    
      37package() {
    
      38    # Install the AppImage and create a symlink
    
      39    install -Dpm755 "${_appimage}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/${_appimage}"
    
      40    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      41    ln -s "/opt/${_pkgname}/${_appimage}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
    
      42
    
      43    # Install the desktop entry file
    
      44    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/${_pkgid}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgid}.desktop"
    
      45
    
      46    # Install the icon
    
      47    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/"
    
      48    cp --no-preserve=mode,ownership "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/${_pkgid}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${_pkgid}.png"
    
      49}
    
      50

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-16 00:12
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 
 _pkgname=Chatbox
 pkgname="chatbox-bin"
-pkgver=1.21.0
+pkgver=1.23.5
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="User-friendly Desktop Client App for AI Models/LLMs (GPT, Claude, Gemini, Ollama...)"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 _pkgid="xyz.chatboxapp.app"
 source=("https://download.chatboxai.app/releases/${_appimage}")
 noextract=("$_appimage")
-sha512sums=('7109c9e551fd2165d0c158bede0057785396ce7b7cd77cb1132b44abef3565967fafdaf477e8e5dfd6520d272b81afb8324c3a6118199cc549f3fa6dd7e21332')
+sha512sums=('a07153ac751f09452d1545f82b0e822ce1207c24633b74f37676892d5437ad693376c3f55d24de76e0c63139650317c179844ca3c15dc380a6fd3ce11cd1e595')
 
 prepare() {
     # Make the AppImage executable

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 03:14:05	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