conar-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer a2n 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary .deb from https://download.conar.app/linux/deb/x64, which is the project's own download subdomain (download.conar.app) rather than GitHub releases. The URL is a redirect/alias that always serves the latest or a specific version — there is no version pinned in the URL path itself, meaning the sha256sum is the only integrity check. A sha256sum IS present, which mitigates silent substitution for this exact build, but the URL pattern (no version in path) is concerning because a future pkgver bump without updating the checksum could silently install a different binary. The host (conar.app) is the official project domain matching the GitHub org (wannabespace/conar), so it is not a random personal host. However, it is still a prebuilt closed binary distributed outside of a reproducible build or GitHub Releases artifact, and the URL structure does not pin to a specific version. This is a genuine but moderate supply-chain concern: the binary is executed, comes from the vendor's own CDN (not a third-party), and has a checksum — making it medium rather than high.

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:36 source_x86_64=("conar-${pkgver}.deb::https://download.conar.app/linux/deb/x64")

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 x86_64 binary .deb from https://download.conar.app/linux/deb/x64, which is the project's own download subdomain (download.conar.app) rather than GitHub releases. The URL is a redirect/alias that always serves the latest or a specific version — there is no version pinned in the URL path itself, meaning the sha256sum is the only integrity check. A sha256sum IS present, which mitigates silent substitution for this exact build, but the URL pattern (no version in path) is concerning because a future pkgver bump without updating the checksum could silently install a different binary. The host (conar.app) is the official project domain matching the GitHub org (wannabespace/conar), so it is not a random personal host. However, it is still a prebuilt closed binary distributed outside of a reproducible build or GitHub Releases artifact, and the URL structure does not pin to a specific version. This is a genuine but moderate supply-chain concern: the binary is executed, comes from the vendor's own CDN (not a third-party), and has a checksum — making it medium rather than high.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Bouteiller a2n Alan <hi@a2n.dev>
    
      2pkgname=conar-bin
    
      3pkgver=0.27.3
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="AI-powered tool for working with Postgres, MySQL, MSSQL and ClickHouse."
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://github.com/wannabespace/conar"
    
      8license=('AGPL-3.0-or-later')
    
      9depends=(
    
      10  'alsa-lib'
    
      11  'at-spi2-core'
    
      12  'cairo'
    
      13  'dbus'
    
      14  'expat'
    
      15  'gcc-libs'
    
      16  'glib2'
    
      17  'glibc'
    
      18  'gtk3'
    
      19  'hicolor-icon-theme'
    
      20  'libcups'
    
      21  'libx11'
    
      22  'libxcb'
    
      23  'libxcomposite'
    
      24  'libxdamage'
    
      25  'libxext'
    
      26  'libxfixes'
    
      27  'libxkbcommon'
    
      28  'libxrandr'
    
      29  'mesa'
    
      30  'nspr'
    
      31  'nss'
    
      32  'pango'
    
      33  'systemd-libs'
    
      34)
    
      35options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      36source_x86_64=("conar-${pkgver}.deb::https://download.conar.app/linux/deb/x64")
    
      37sha256sums_x86_64=('b2a736572cf4fde0a3869c90a00dae1cfb500fd86d6ac20473a0d36d6bf0ba8c')
    
      38
    
      39package() {
    
      40  # Extract the .deb file
    
      41  ar -x "${srcdir}/conar-${pkgver}.deb"
    
      42
    
      43  # Extract the data archive
    
      44  tar -xJ -f data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      45
    
      46  # Create symlink for command line usage
    
      47  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      48  ln -s "/opt/Conar/Conar" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/conar"
    
      49
    
      50  # Fix desktop file path if it exists
    
      51  if [ -f "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/conar.desktop" ]; then
    
      52    sed -i 's|/opt/Conar/Conar|conar|g' "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/conar.desktop"
    
      53  fi
    
      54}
    
      55

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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
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2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2