dr

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD runs 'pip install --isolated --root=${pkgdir} requests devRantSimple' during the package() phase with no version pinning and no checksums for the pip-installed packages. This means arbitrary versions of 'requests' and 'devRantSimple' from PyPI are fetched and installed at build time with no integrity verification. 'devRantSimple' in particular is a small third-party package with limited scrutiny. Additionally, the main binary 'dr' is downloaded from a GitHub releases page as a pre-built binary (not source), which is itself a supply-chain concern — a compiled/executed binary from a personal project release. The combination of an unverified pre-built binary plus unpinned pip dependencies with no checksums constitutes a genuine medium-severity supply-chain risk.

Triggered rules

Medium pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

PKGBUILD:18 PIP_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null pip install --isolated --root="${pkgdir}" requests devRantSimple

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD runs 'pip install --isolated --root=${pkgdir} requests devRantSimple' during the package() phase with no version pinning and no checksums for the pip-installed packages. This means arbitrary versions of 'requests' and 'devRantSimple' from PyPI are fetched and installed at build time with no integrity verification. 'devRantSimple' in particular is a small third-party package with limited scrutiny. Additionally, the main binary 'dr' is downloaded from a GitHub releases page as a pre-built binary (not source), which is itself a supply-chain concern — a compiled/executed binary from a personal project release. The combination of an unverified pre-built binary plus unpinned pip dependencies with no checksums constitutes a genuine medium-severity supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Electrux <ElectruxRedsworth AT gmail DOT com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=dr
    
      4pkgver=2.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="An ed-like client for devRant written in python"
    
      7arch=('any')
    
      8url="https://github.com/Ewpratten/dr"
    
      9license=('MIT')
    
      10
    
      11makedepends=('python-pip' 'python')
    
      12depends=('python-pip' 'python')
    
      13
    
      14source=("https://github.com/Ewpratten/${pkgname}/releases/download/${pkgver}-nix/dr")
    
      15sha512sums=('b372238a0ee3ce0a44ca733c0f9676f9f21498304825ee97409351c78f9fbd08ae44c2f354ecfbb030b5c59eebee85227f643ff6d2063622759f82bd60e6f377')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18        PIP_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null pip install --isolated --root="${pkgdir}" requests devRantSimple
    
      19        install -Dm755 ./dr "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/dr"
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22

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