easyroam-desktop-bin

maintainer scarfedfox · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from packages.easyroam.de, which is the official distribution host for the easyroam-desktop application (easyroam is a legitimate eduroam-based Wi-Fi profile management service used by German universities). The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks at the time of packaging. However, the source is a prebuilt binary from a vendor-controlled host over plain HTTP (not HTTPS), meaning the download is not transport-encrypted and could be intercepted/substituted in transit. The binary is then extracted and installed directly without any signature verification beyond the sha256. This is a real supply-chain concern: the HTTP transport allows MITM substitution of the binary, and the sha256 only protects against post-download tampering if the checksum itself hasn't been compromised. The package also uses an .install hook which could execute arbitrary code at install time. These factors together justify a medium rating — it's a legitimate vendor package but delivered insecurely (HTTP) with no GPG signature verification, and the installed artifact is executed code from a third-party host.

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:13 source=('http://packages.easyroam.de/repos/easyroam-desktop/pool/main/e/easyroam-desktop/easyroam_connect_desktop-1.4.3%2B1.4.3-linux.deb')
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 .deb from packages.easyroam.de, which is the official distribution host for the easyroam-desktop application (easyroam is a legitimate eduroam-based Wi-Fi profile management service used by German universities). The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks at the time of packaging. However, the source is a prebuilt binary from a vendor-controlled host over plain HTTP (not HTTPS), meaning the download is not transport-encrypted and could be intercepted/substituted in transit. The binary is then extracted and installed directly without any signature verification beyond the sha256. This is a real supply-chain concern: the HTTP transport allows MITM substitution of the binary, and the sha256 only protects against post-download tampering if the checksum itself hasn't been compromised. The package also uses an .install hook which could execute arbitrary code at install time. These factors together justify a medium rating — it's a legitimate vendor package but delivered insecurely (HTTP) with no GPG signature verification, and the installed artifact is executed code from a third-party host.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Eric Finger <ericfinger at ericfinger dot com>
2pkgname=easyroam-desktop-bin
3pkgver=1.4.3
4pkgrel=0
5epoch=0
6pkgdesc="Manage and install your easyroam wifi profiles"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://www.easyroam.de/"
9license=('unknown')
10depends=('gtk3' 'lz4' 'xz' 'libnm' 'libsecret' 'webkit2gtk-4.1' 'openssl')
11provides=('easyroam-desktop')
12conflicts=('easyroam-desktop')
13source=('http://packages.easyroam.de/repos/easyroam-desktop/pool/main/e/easyroam-desktop/easyroam_connect_desktop-1.4.3%2B1.4.3-linux.deb')
14sha256sums=('d373cb0144105a56803bed1c61c0a8adcd50eb0021bcb4065cdbb49aa87c2efc')
15install=".install"
16
17package() {
18 tar -xvf 'data.tar.gz' -C "${pkgdir}"
19}
20

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