chatwise

MEDIUM

maintainer 381181295 3 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary binary .deb from releases.chatwise.app, which is the vendor's own release host for this application. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates casual substitution attacks, but the host is a project-specific domain with no independent verification mechanism (no GPG signature check). The package extracts and installs an Electron-based binary directly into /opt, which executes with full user privileges. This is a standard pattern for proprietary AUR packages (similar to discord, slack, zoom, etc.), but the combination of a lesser-known vendor, a project-specific release host, no GPG verification, and a fully executed binary warrants a medium rating. There is no evidence of obfuscation, piracy, or active malice — this is a legitimate supply-chain concern rather than an attack.

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:12 source=("https://releases.chatwise.app/${pkgver}/ChatWise-${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 proprietary binary .deb from releases.chatwise.app, which is the vendor's own release host for this application. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates casual substitution attacks, but the host is a project-specific domain with no independent verification mechanism (no GPG signature check). The package extracts and installs an Electron-based binary directly into /opt, which executes with full user privileges. This is a standard pattern for proprietary AUR packages (similar to discord, slack, zoom, etc.), but the combination of a lesser-known vendor, a project-specific release host, no GPG verification, and a fully executed binary warrants a medium rating. There is no evidence of obfuscation, piracy, or active malice — this is a legitimate supply-chain concern rather than an attack.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: charlie <github.com/381181295>
    
      2# Co-maintainer: SIGTERM <https://github.com/SIGTERM-015>
    
      3pkgname=chatwise
    
      4pkgver=26.5.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="The fastest AI chatbot"
    
      7arch=(x86_64)
    
      8url="https://chatwise.app/"
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-proprietary')
    
      10depends=(gtk3 libnotify nss libxss libxtst xdg-utils at-spi2-core util-linux-libs libsecret hicolor-icon-theme libappindicator-gtk3)
    
      11options=(!strip !debug)
    
      12source=("https://releases.chatwise.app/${pkgver}/ChatWise-${pkgver}.deb")
    
      13sha256sums=('aa39c7d5673116d9fbec45fa621b560e42dfe47347f6be98b500841528f43238')
    
      14
    
      15package() {
    
      16    bsdtar -xf data.tar.* -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      17    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      18    ln -s /opt/ChatWise/ChatWise "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/chatwise"
    
      19}
    
      20

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