chromiumos-snapshot-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer antgame11 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

Two real concerns here: (1) A prebuilt binary archive is downloaded from download-chromium.appspot.com with sha256sums=('SKIP'), meaning no integrity verification. While download-chromium.appspot.com is a Google-operated service that serves Chromium snapshots, the lack of checksum means any MITM or server-side substitution would go undetected. (2) The package hardcodes real Google API credentials (GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET) in a world-readable shell script — these are the well-known public Chromium build keys, not a secret exfiltration, but worth noting. The primary concern remains the SKIP'd checksum on an executed binary: even from a legitimate host, this is a genuine supply-chain risk since the binary is executed directly on the user's system. The host itself (appspot.com/Google) is semi-official for Chromium snapshots, which keeps this from being high severity, but the missing integrity check on an executed binary warrants medium.

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:11 source=("chromiumos.zip::https://download-chromium.appspot.com/dl/Linux_ChromiumOS_Full?type=snapshots")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): Two real concerns here: (1) A prebuilt binary archive is downloaded from download-chromium.appspot.com with sha256sums=('SKIP'), meaning no integrity verification. While download-chromium.appspot.com is a Google-operated service that serves Chromium snapshots, the lack of checksum means any MITM or server-side substitution would go undetected. (2) The package hardcodes real Google API credentials (GOOGLE_API_KEY, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID, GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET) in a world-readable shell script — these are the well-known public Chromium build keys, not a secret exfiltration, but worth noting. The primary concern remains the SKIP'd checksum on an executed binary: even from a legitimate host, this is a genuine supply-chain risk since the binary is executed directly on the user's system. The host itself (appspot.com/Google) is semi-official for Chromium snapshots, which keeps this from being high severity, but the missing integrity check on an executed binary warrants medium.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1pkgname=chromiumos-snapshot-bin
    
      2pkgver=1
    
      3pkgrel=1
    
      4pkgdesc="ChromiumOS compiled for Linux and can run ChromeOS kiosk enterprise apps"
    
      5pkgbase=pkgbase
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://download-chromium.appspot.com/"
    
      8license=('BSD')
    
      9depends=('glibc')
    
      10makedepends=('unzip')
    
      11source=("chromiumos.zip::https://download-chromium.appspot.com/dl/Linux_ChromiumOS_Full?type=snapshots")
    
      12sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      13
    
      14build() {
    
      15    :
    
      16}
    
      17
    
      18package() {
    
      19    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin/chrome"
    
      20
    
      21    unzip "$srcdir/chromiumos.zip" -d "$srcdir"
    
      22
    
      23    cp -r "$srcdir/chrome-chromeos/"* "$pkgdir/usr/bin/chrome/"
    
      24
    
      25    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      26    cat << 'EOF' > "$pkgdir/usr/bin/chromiumos"
    
      27#!/bin/bash
    
      28
    
      29export GOOGLE_API_KEY="AIzaSyCkfPOPZXDKNn8hhgu3JrA62wIgC93d44k"
    
      30export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_ID="77185425430.apps.googleusercontent.com"
    
      31export GOOGLE_DEFAULT_CLIENT_SECRET="OTJgUOQcT7lO7GsGZq2G4IlT"
    
      32
    
      33/usr/bin/chrome/chrome --login-manager
    
      34EOF
    
      35
    
      36    chmod +x "$pkgdir/usr/bin/chromiumos"
    
      37
    
      38    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications"
    
      39
    
      40    cat << EOF > "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/chromiumos.desktop"
    
      41[Desktop Entry]
    
      42Type=Application
    
      43Name=ChromiumOS
    
      44Exec=/usr/bin/chromiumos
    
      45Icon=/usr/bin/chrome/product_logo_48.png
    
      46Terminal=false
    
      47Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
    
      48EOF
    
      49}
    
      50

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 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2