chatbox-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer richin13 13 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from download.chatboxai.app, which is the official Chatbox project's own distribution domain (chatboxai.app is the project's homepage). This is a standard pattern for AppImage-based AUR packages. However, it is still a prebuilt, closed-distribution binary from a vendor-controlled host with no reproducibility guarantee — the sha512sum provides integrity checking against substitution at rest, but the host itself could serve a different binary in the future. The sha512sum has 127 hex characters instead of the expected 128, which may indicate a truncated/corrupted checksum (potential 'broken' flag, but not necessarily a security issue on its own). The AppImage is executed during prepare() to extract its contents (--appimage-extract), which is standard AppImage packaging practice. Overall this fits the classic medium pattern: an executed binary from a non-standard (though official project) host, with a potentially malformed checksum.

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 (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from download.chatboxai.app, which is the official Chatbox project's own distribution domain (chatboxai.app is the project's homepage). This is a standard pattern for AppImage-based AUR packages. However, it is still a prebuilt, closed-distribution binary from a vendor-controlled host with no reproducibility guarantee — the sha512sum provides integrity checking against substitution at rest, but the host itself could serve a different binary in the future. The sha512sum has 127 hex characters instead of the expected 128, which may indicate a truncated/corrupted checksum (potential 'broken' flag, but not necessarily a security issue on its own). The AppImage is executed during prepare() to extract its contents (--appimage-extract), which is standard AppImage packaging practice. Overall this fits the classic medium pattern: an executed binary from a non-standard (though official project) host, with a potentially malformed checksum.

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=1.21.0
    
      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=('7109c9e551fd2165d0c158bede0057785396ce7b7cd77cb1132b44abef3565967fafdaf477e8e5dfd6520d272b81afb8324c3a6118199cc549f3fa6dd7e21332')
    
      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

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