editenv

maintainer Connor · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package from software.concise.cc, which is a personal/unofficial host operated by the maintainer rather than the project's official GitLab release infrastructure (gitlab.com/a4to/editenv). A prebuilt binary is installed directly to /usr/bin/editenv. While a sha512sum and a PGP key are provided (which mitigates tampering risk somewhat), the binary originates from a host fully controlled by the maintainer rather than the upstream project's release channel. If the maintainer's personal server is compromised or the maintainer is malicious, users would execute arbitrary code. The arch=(any) declaration is also suspicious for a binary package. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host, not a false positive.

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:14 "https://software.concise.cc/x86_64/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.xz"

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 package from software.concise.cc, which is a personal/unofficial host operated by the maintainer rather than the project's official GitLab release infrastructure (gitlab.com/a4to/editenv). A prebuilt binary is installed directly to /usr/bin/editenv. While a sha512sum and a PGP key are provided (which mitigates tampering risk somewhat), the binary originates from a host fully controlled by the maintainer rather than the upstream project's release channel. If the maintainer's personal server is compromised or the maintainer is malicious, users would execute arbitrary code. The arch=(any) declaration is also suspicious for a binary package. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Connor Etherington <connor@concise.cc>
    
      2# ---
    
      3pkgname=editenv
    
      4pkgver=0.2.3
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A simple command line tool for conveniently storing and editing environment variables."
    
      7arch=(any)
    
      8url="https://gitlab.com/a4to/${pkgname}"
    
      9license=('MIT')
    
      10depends=(dialog xsel)
    
      11optdepends=('zsh: zsh completion')
    
      12install="${pkgname}.install"
    
      13source=(
    
      14  "https://software.concise.cc/x86_64/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.xz"
    
      15)
    
      16sha512sums=(
    
      17  '42d163e05f498927ac891898d2a55a7a37a67ae4b00854f6a2297e7e0eeab4b3b844bb984ad2fb30491507a1825345b439ffe906627c8ad340dd7e0ef58480fc'
    
      18)
    
      19md5sums=(
    
      20  '94451ff1b6417ec6e94eef0e8b3f3c3a'
    
      21)
    
      22validpgpkeys=(
    
      23  '81BACEEBC3EA26E127166E4A819BB92A9A48160E'
    
      24)
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27
    
      28  cd "$srcdir/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-${arch}" ||
    
      29  cd "$srcdir/${pkgname}"
    
      30
    
      31  install -Dm644 usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      32  install -Dm755 usr/bin/${pkgname} "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      33  install -Dm0644 usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_${pkgname} "$pkgdir/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_${pkgname}"
    
      34
    
      35}
    
      36

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