codemao-wood-uos

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from home-store-packages.uniontech.com, which is the UOS (UnionTech OS / Deepin) official app store package repository — not a random personal host, but also not the upstream vendor (codemao.cn) directly. The binary is an Electron/Chromium-based application executed as root-installed code. There is a sha512sum check, which mitigates tampering risk somewhat, but the source is a third-party app store mirror rather than the upstream developer's own distribution channel. The extracted binary runs with broad filesystem permissions (chmod -R 755) and is an Electron app launched with --no-sandbox. This is a legitimate medium-risk pattern: prebuilt closed binary from a non-upstream host with a checksum but no GPG signature, representing a real supply-chain concern if the app store host is compromised. Not clearly malicious, but not clean either.

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 "https://home-store-packages.uniontech.com/appstore/pool/appstore/c/cn.codemao.wood/cn.codemao.wood_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 75%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from home-store-packages.uniontech.com, which is the UOS (UnionTech OS / Deepin) official app store package repository — not a random personal host, but also not the upstream vendor (codemao.cn) directly. The binary is an Electron/Chromium-based application executed as root-installed code. There is a sha512sum check, which mitigates tampering risk somewhat, but the source is a third-party app store mirror rather than the upstream developer's own distribution channel. The extracted binary runs with broad filesystem permissions (chmod -R 755) and is an Electron app launched with --no-sandbox. This is a legitimate medium-risk pattern: prebuilt closed binary from a non-upstream host with a checksum but no GPG signature, representing a real supply-chain concern if the app store host is compromised. Not clearly malicious, but not clean either.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Integral <integral@member.fsf.org>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=codemao-wood-uos
    
      4pkgver=0.1.3
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="海龟编辑器 Turtle Editor (An editor tailed for programming for kids)."
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://python.codemao.cn/"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10depends=('gtk3' 'nss' 'alsa-lib')
    
      11source=(
    
      12	"https://home-store-packages.uniontech.com/appstore/pool/appstore/c/cn.codemao.wood/cn.codemao.wood_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      13)
    
      14sha512sums=('95251a01149c92f4db220c4ff0cfa5178122bd691fbfe4ace2c2da958f9d351f4ab1f692f5187a6342e5ae1c626dacff61fba5d5d45cef54ed0510997e179dcc')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17	echo "  -> Extracting the data.tar.xz..."
    
      18	bsdtar -xvf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}/"
    
      19	chmod -R 755 "${pkgdir}/"
    
      20
    
      21	echo "  -> Installing..."
    
      22	# Launcher
    
      23	mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
    
      24	ln -s "/opt/apps/cn.codemao.wood/files/cn.codemao.wood" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      25	# Desktop Entry
    
      26	sed -i '4{s/$/ --no-sandbox/g}' "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/cn.codemao.wood/entries/applications/cn.codemao.wood.desktop"
    
      27	install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/cn.codemao.wood/entries/applications/cn.codemao.wood.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/"
    
      28	# License
    
      29	install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/cn.codemao.wood/files/LICENSE" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
    
      30	install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/cn.codemao.wood/files/LICENSES.chromium.html" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
    
      31}
    
      32

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