chatgpt-desktop

maintainer Akira-Amatsume · 24 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (persistent.oaistatic.com), which is not a standard or widely recognized domain for official releases, and the checksums are provided but the source is not the upstream project's primary domain, creating a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or spoofed.

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:69 "chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/pool/main/c/chatgpt/chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"

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 .deb from a non-whitelisted host (persistent.oaistatic.com), which is not a standard or widely recognized domain for official releases, and the checksums are provided but the source is not the upstream project's primary domain, creating a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or spoofed.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Akira <akira.uestc at gmail dot com>
    
      2# Releases (x86_64): https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages
    
      3# Releases (aarch64): https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-arm64/Packages
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=chatgpt-desktop
    
      6pkgver=26.810.52044
    
      7pkgrel=2
    
      8pkgdesc="ChatGPT desktop application for Linux (repackaged from the official binary)"
    
      9arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      10url="https://chatgpt.com/download"
    
      11license=('LicenseRef-custom')
    
      12options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      13provides=(
    
      14  "chatgpt=${pkgver}"
    
      15)
    
      16conflicts=(
    
      17  'chatgpt'
    
      18)
    
      19
    
      20depends=(
    
      21  'alsa-lib'
    
      22  'at-spi2-core'
    
      23  'cairo'
    
      24  'dbus'
    
      25  'expat'
    
      26  'gdk-pixbuf2'
    
      27  'glib2'
    
      28  'glibc'
    
      29  'graphite'
    
      30  'gtk3'
    
      31  'libcups'
    
      32  'libdrm'
    
      33  'libgcc'
    
      34  'libglvnd'
    
      35  'libnotify'
    
      36  'libpulse'
    
      37  'libstdc++'
    
      38  'libusb'
    
      39  'libx11'
    
      40  'libxcb'
    
      41  'libxcomposite'
    
      42  'libxdamage'
    
      43  'libxext'
    
      44  'libxfixes'
    
      45  'libxkbcommon'
    
      46  'libxrandr'
    
      47  'mesa'
    
      48  'nspr'
    
      49  'nss'
    
      50  'pango'
    
      51  'systemd-libs'
    
      52  'sh'
    
      53  'xdg-utils'
    
      54)
    
      55
    
      56optdepends=(
    
      57  'apparmor: automatically load the bundled profile for Chromium user namespaces'
    
      58  'git: enable Git repository integration'
    
      59  'gtk4: use the GTK 4 backend with --gtk-version=4'
    
      60  'kde-cli-tools: move deleted files to the Plasma trash through kioclient'
    
      61  'org.freedesktop.secrets: securely store credentials with a Secret Service backend'
    
      62  'pipewire: enable WebRTC screen sharing under Wayland'
    
      63)
    
      64
    
      65backup=('etc/apparmor.d/chatgpt')
    
      66install="${pkgname}.install"
    
      67
    
      68source_x86_64=(
    
      69  "chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/pool/main/c/chatgpt/chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      70)
    
      71source_aarch64=(
    
      72  "chatgpt_${pkgver}_arm64.deb::https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/pool/main/c/chatgpt/chatgpt_${pkgver}_arm64.deb"
    
      73)
    
      74source=('chatgpt-launcher.sh')
    
      75noextract=(
    
      76  "chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      77  "chatgpt_${pkgver}_arm64.deb"
    
      78)
    
      79sha256sums_x86_64=('708a15a1bb76e2bb7f0e376e5145391fa277ad3a64057c1d32537bdc2a1b4e6e')
    
      80sha256sums_aarch64=('6ebea681b1e494d218a199f638b4bc886e94e1458dd61079b1e390a6fb98fdd2')
    
      81sha256sums=('aab6b1105d7273443234e77412fbaa35ff9e04098ac63c2f73ae8e87afb43bd2')
    
      82
    
      83package() {
    
      84  local _deb_arch
    
      85
    
      86  case "${CARCH}" in
    
      87    x86_64) _deb_arch='amd64' ;;
    
      88    aarch64) _deb_arch='arm64' ;;
    
      89    *)
    
      90      printf 'Unsupported architecture: %s\n' "${CARCH}" >&2
    
      91      return 1
    
      92      ;;
    
      93  esac
    
      94
    
      95  bsdtar -xOf "${srcdir}/chatgpt_${pkgver}_${_deb_arch}.deb" data.tar.xz |
    
      96    bsdtar --no-same-owner -xJf - -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      97
    
      98  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/chatgpt-launcher.sh" \
    
      99    "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/chatgpt/codex-launcher"
    
      100
    
      101  install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/chatgpt/copyright" \
    
      102    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/copyright"
    
      103  ln -s /usr/lib/chatgpt/LICENSES.chromium.html \
    
      104    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSES.chromium.html"
    
      105
    
      106  rm -rf "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/lintian"
    
      107}
    
      108

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-16 00:03
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-18 00:03
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 # Maintainer: Akira <akira.uestc at gmail dot com>
-# Releases: https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages
+# Releases (x86_64): https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages
+# Releases (aarch64): https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/dists/stable/main/binary-arm64/Packages
 
 pkgname=chatgpt-desktop
 pkgver=26.810.52044
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="ChatGPT desktop application for Linux (repackaged from the official binary)"
-arch=('x86_64')
+arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
 url="https://chatgpt.com/download"
 license=('LicenseRef-custom')
 options=('!strip' '!debug')
@@ -67,13 +68,31 @@
 source_x86_64=(
   "chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/pool/main/c/chatgpt/chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
 )
+source_aarch64=(
+  "chatgpt_${pkgver}_arm64.deb::https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/pool/main/c/chatgpt/chatgpt_${pkgver}_arm64.deb"
+)
 source=('chatgpt-launcher.sh')
-noextract=("chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
+noextract=(
+  "chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
+  "chatgpt_${pkgver}_arm64.deb"
+)
 sha256sums_x86_64=('708a15a1bb76e2bb7f0e376e5145391fa277ad3a64057c1d32537bdc2a1b4e6e')
+sha256sums_aarch64=('6ebea681b1e494d218a199f638b4bc886e94e1458dd61079b1e390a6fb98fdd2')
 sha256sums=('aab6b1105d7273443234e77412fbaa35ff9e04098ac63c2f73ae8e87afb43bd2')
 
 package() {
-  bsdtar -xOf "${srcdir}/chatgpt_${pkgver}_amd64.deb" data.tar.xz |
+  local _deb_arch
+
+  case "${CARCH}" in
+    x86_64) _deb_arch='amd64' ;;
+    aarch64) _deb_arch='arm64' ;;
+    *)
+      printf 'Unsupported architecture: %s\n' "${CARCH}" >&2
+      return 1
+      ;;
+  esac
+
+  bsdtar -xOf "${srcdir}/chatgpt_${pkgver}_${_deb_arch}.deb" data.tar.xz |
     bsdtar --no-same-owner -xJf - -C "${pkgdir}"
 
   install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/chatgpt-launcher.sh" \

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-17 00:18:29	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-16 09:32:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-16 00:03:42	LOW	2
2026-08-15 13:34:03	LOW	3
2026-08-15 13:30:33	MEDIUM	3