cloud66-toolbelt

maintainer statenjason · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (cx) from downloads.cloud66.com, which is the official Cloud66 distribution host for their toolbelt CLI. The binary is installed directly into /usr/bin without any source build. While downloads.cloud66.com is plausibly the vendor's own CDN/distribution endpoint (consistent with the official help URL referencing cloud66.com), it is still a prebuilt binary from a non-GitHub/non-distro-mirror host with no source build. The checksums (md5 + sha256) are present, which mitigates MITM risk but not a compromised upstream host. This is a legitimate medium-risk pattern: executed binary from a vendor host rather than compiled from source, which is the standard AUR concern for prebuilt binary packages. Not high because there is no evidence of malice, obfuscation, or unofficial/personal hosting — it is the vendor's own distribution infrastructure.

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:14 source=("http://downloads.cloud66.com/cx/cx_${pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz")

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 binary (cx) from downloads.cloud66.com, which is the official Cloud66 distribution host for their toolbelt CLI. The binary is installed directly into /usr/bin without any source build. While downloads.cloud66.com is plausibly the vendor's own CDN/distribution endpoint (consistent with the official help URL referencing cloud66.com), it is still a prebuilt binary from a non-GitHub/non-distro-mirror host with no source build. The checksums (md5 + sha256) are present, which mitigates MITM risk but not a compromised upstream host. This is a legitimate medium-risk pattern: executed binary from a vendor host rather than compiled from source, which is the standard AUR concern for prebuilt binary packages. Not high because there is no evidence of malice, obfuscation, or unofficial/personal hosting — it is the vendor's own distribution infrastructure.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Jason Staten <jstaten07 gmail>
    
      2# PKGBUILD Source: https://sr.ht/~statianzo/PKGBUILD-cloud66-toolbelt
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=cloud66-toolbelt
    
      5pkgver=0.1.111
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='Cloud66 Toolbelt'
    
      8url='https://help.cloud66.com/toolbelt/toolbelt-introduction'
    
      9license=('unknown')
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11depends=()
    
      12makedepends=()
    
      13optdepends=()
    
      14source=("http://downloads.cloud66.com/cx/cx_${pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz")
    
      15md5sums=('650a7a9de735bf9a11c522c1554fac4e')
    
      16sha256sums=('66f955d540df3faeaeb7d9703829b3bc4bd74593874bd3845238360040b33a8d')
    
      17
    
      18package() {
    
      19  cd "${srcdir}/cx_${pkgver}_linux_amd64/"
    
      20  install -D -m755 "cx"                "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/cx"
    
      21}
    
      22

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