epic-lore-desktop-bin

maintainer asyncbtd · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

MEDIUM

Why flagged Installs a prebuilt binary .deb from releases.lore.org, a non-standard host that cannot be verified as the official Epic Games release infrastructure (the official repo points to github.com/EpicGames/lore), and the checksum provides only weak assurance since the host could silently swap the binary; no obfuscation or active malice is visible, but the unverifiable prebuilt executable from a potentially unrelated host warrants medium severity.

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:25 source=("https://releases.lore.org/desktop/releases/stable/lore-desktop_amd64.deb")

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 70%): Installs a prebuilt binary .deb from releases.lore.org, a non-standard host that cannot be verified as the official Epic Games release infrastructure (the official repo points to github.com/EpicGames/lore), and the checksum provides only weak assurance since the host could silently swap the binary; no obfuscation or active malice is visible, but the unverifiable prebuilt executable from a potentially unrelated host warrants medium severity.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Timofey Brukhanchik <asyncbtd@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=epic-lore-desktop-bin
    
      4pkgver=0.8.6
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="GUI client for next-generation open source version control system by Epic Games (Pre-compiled binary)"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://github.com/EpicGames/lore"
    
      9license=('custom:Epic Games')
    
      10depends=(
    
      11  'at-spi2-core'
    
      12  'gtk3'
    
      13  'libnotify'
    
      14  'libsecret'
    
      15  'libxss'
    
      16  'libxtst'
    
      17  'nss'
    
      18  'xdg-utils'
    
      19)
    
      20optdepends=(
    
      21  'libappindicator-gtk3: systray indicator support'
    
      22)
    
      23provides=('lore-desktop')
    
      24options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      25source=("https://releases.lore.org/desktop/releases/stable/lore-desktop_amd64.deb")
    
      26sha256sums=('c9ac0237eddb795e6fadf8fd1583ac358ff9eeb10918d977632003ce37a8f3c5')
    
      27noextract=("lore-desktop_amd64.deb")
    
      28
    
      29package() {
    
      30  bsdtar -O -xf "${srcdir}/lore-desktop_amd64.deb" data.tar.gz | bsdtar -C "${pkgdir}" -xzf -
    
      31
    
      32  install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/Lore Desktop/resources/TERMS_OF_USE.txt" \
    
      33    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/TERMS_OF_USE.txt"
    
      34
    
      35  rm -rf "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc"
    
      36
    
      37  find "${pkgdir}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      38}
    
      39

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2026-08-18 00:03:42	MEDIUM	3
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