claude-science

MEDIUM

maintainer boraarslan 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt executable from a non-whitelisted but plausibly official host (downloads.claude.ai); while the checksum is verified, the source is a binary release not built from auditable source code, creating a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised.

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:16 source=("cs-legal::https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance.md")
PKGBUILD:17 source_x86_64=("claude-science-${pkgver}::https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-science/${pkgver}/linux-x64")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The package downloads a prebuilt executable from a non-whitelisted but plausibly official host (downloads.claude.ai); while the checksum is verified, the source is a binary release not built from auditable source code, creating a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised.

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Bora <bora.rs@pm.me>
    
      2pkgname=claude-science
    
      3pkgver=0.1.48
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Run Claude on your data locally, in your browser — Anthropic's research agent (beta)"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://claude.com/product/claude-science"
    
      8license=('LicenseRef-claude-science')
    
      9depends=('glibc' 'bash' 'socat' 'bubblewrap>=0.8.0')
    
      10optdepends=('xdg-utils: auto-open the web UI in your browser (claude-science serve / open)'
    
      11            'ca-certificates: system CA trust store for TLS in restricted environments')
    
      12# Self-contained Bun single-file executable with embedded JS/resources — stripping breaks it.
    
      13options=('!strip')
    
      14# Legal doc is a live page (same one the claude-code AUR package ships): SKIP its checksum.
    
      15# The binary is pinned to a version-stable, content-addressed URL with a real checksum.
    
      16source=("cs-legal::https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance.md")
    
      17source_x86_64=("claude-science-${pkgver}::https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-science/${pkgver}/linux-x64")
    
      18sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      19sha256sums_x86_64=('58d5760b4255771de1c1bd7a3a0f2c74afffed5a123ff998dd03a51a0c26a2c3')
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22	install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/claude-science-${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/claude-science"
    
      23	install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/cs-legal" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      24}
    
      25

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-15 00:25
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Bora <bora.rs@pm.me>
 pkgname=claude-science
-pkgver=0.1.43
+pkgver=0.1.48
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Run Claude on your data locally, in your browser — Anthropic's research agent (beta)"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 source=("cs-legal::https://code.claude.com/docs/en/legal-and-compliance.md")
 source_x86_64=("claude-science-${pkgver}::https://downloads.claude.ai/claude-science/${pkgver}/linux-x64")
 sha256sums=('SKIP')
-sha256sums_x86_64=('bd67456d23a70f4ca13c31c910bb4fbb5cf16ecb30919f6bbdeba55bf2e7a528')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('58d5760b4255771de1c1bd7a3a0f2c74afffed5a123ff998dd03a51a0c26a2c3')
 
 package() {
 	install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/claude-science-${pkgver}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/claude-science"

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 13:19:52	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 21:49:23	Medium	1
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2