cwtch-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer fr0stb1rd 3 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from a non-whitelisted host (git.openprivacy.ca), which is not a standard release domain; if compromised, this could deliver a malicious payload, though the project is plausibly official.

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:19 source_x86_64=("https://git.openprivacy.ca/$_pkgname.im/$_pkgname-ui/releases/download/v$pkgver/cwtch-${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from a non-whitelisted host (git.openprivacy.ca), which is not a standard release domain; if compromised, this could deliver a malicious payload, though the project is plausibly official.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: fr0stb1rd <fr0stb1rd@proton.me>
    
      2# Old Maintainer: iamawacko <iamawacko@protonmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Trevor Bergeron <mal@sec.gd>
    
      4# Upstream: https://git.openprivacy.ca/cwtch.im/cwtch-ui/releases
    
      5
    
      6_pkgname=cwtch
    
      7pkgname=$_pkgname-bin
    
      8pkgver=1.17.2
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="Decentralized, privacy-preserving, multi-party messaging protocol client (binary distribution)"
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url='https://cwtch.im'
    
      13license=('MIT')
    
      14provides=('cwtch')
    
      15conflicts=('cwtch' 'cwtch-git' 'libcwtch-go')
    
      16depends=('gtk3' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'tor')
    
      17optdepends=('tor: use system tor instead of bundled (required by upstream deb)')
    
      18options=('!strip')
    
      19source_x86_64=("https://git.openprivacy.ca/$_pkgname.im/$_pkgname-ui/releases/download/v$pkgver/cwtch-${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      20sha256sums_x86_64=('fc696cf2880738bab2ab9aaa0c871b1f134ed337d0f50c51da7cfb94be19daaf')
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    # .deb is an ar archive: debian-binary + control.tar.xz + data.tar.xz.
    
      24    # Only data.tar.xz (the /usr tree) is needed.
    
      25    cd "$srcdir"
    
      26    bsdtar -xf "cwtch-${pkgver}_amd64.deb" data.tar.xz
    
      27    bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      28
    
      29    # Upstream templates expand PREFIX=/usr/ with trailing slash -> "/usr//bin".
    
      30    # Harmless, but normalize to single slash.
    
      31    sed -i 's|/usr//|/usr/|g' "$pkgdir/usr/bin/cwtch" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/cwtch.desktop"
    
      32}
    
      33

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