ednovas-cloud

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from storage.ednovas.org, which is the vendor's own storage subdomain (ednovas.org is the official project URL listed in the url= field), so it is not a random personal host. The sha512 checksums are present, providing integrity verification. However, the binary is a closed-source Electron-based proxy client installed without source compilation, and the host is not a well-known forge or CDN. The supply-chain risk is real but typical for proprietary AUR packages that distribute prebuilt binaries from their own infrastructure — similar to many other commercial Linux clients in the AUR. The medium rating is appropriate: it is not clearly malicious, but it is an executed binary from a non-mainstream host with no source code available for audit.

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:12 source_x86_64=("https://storage.ednovas.org/desktop/${pkgver}/EdNovas-Cloud-${pkgver}-Linux-amd64.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from storage.ednovas.org, which is the vendor's own storage subdomain (ednovas.org is the official project URL listed in the url= field), so it is not a random personal host. The sha512 checksums are present, providing integrity verification. However, the binary is a closed-source Electron-based proxy client installed without source compilation, and the host is not a well-known forge or CDN. The supply-chain risk is real but typical for proprietary AUR packages that distribute prebuilt binaries from their own infrastructure — similar to many other commercial Linux clients in the AUR. The medium rating is appropriate: it is not clearly malicious, but it is an executed binary from a non-mainstream host with no source code available for audit.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Stevezxc <stevezhou586 at gmail dot com>
    
      2pkgname=ednovas-cloud
    
      3pkgver=1.1.52
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="EdNovas Cloud Proxy Client. Official desktop client for EdNovas Cloud services."
    
      6arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      7url="https://ednovas.org"
    
      8license=('Apache-2.0')
    
      9depends=('alsa-lib' 'at-spi2-core' 'cairo' 'dbus' 'expat' 'gcc-libs' 'glib2' 'glibc' 'gtk3' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libcups' 'libnotify' 'libsecret' 'libx11' 'libxcb' 'libxcomposite' 'libxdamage' 'libxext' 'libxfixes' 'libxkbcommon' 'libxrandr' 'libxss' 'libxtst' 'mesa' 'nspr' 'nss' 'pango' 'systemd-libs' 'util-linux-libs' 'xdg-utils')
    
      10optdepends=('libappindicator')
    
      11options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      12source_x86_64=("https://storage.ednovas.org/desktop/${pkgver}/EdNovas-Cloud-${pkgver}-Linux-amd64.deb")
    
      13source_aarch64=("https://storage.ednovas.org/desktop/${pkgver}/EdNovas-Cloud-${pkgver}-Linux-arm64.deb")
    
      14sha512sums_x86_64=('b5d101685958424eacc4de18cfc38d42350c9cbf23440753aed5da0478251628b05beecaab7c74eb5e5aaec1d401aee60579c4e417843607b6b23350def4bea2')
    
      15sha512sums_aarch64=('b565d0a68ee8877497b6eb9c03e13e856a3e7057ac629cca5e746cfddabe6dbaa1c08d2ad2cd9c8a8637ab336cec63f537ca53ffe6a1b6e1766d472e6d77aa8e')
    
      16
    
      17package(){
    
      18	tar -xJ -f data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      19}
    
      20

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