express

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-standard host (express.ms) which is not a common upstream source for open-source projects, posing a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or untrusted.

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://updates.express.ms/desktop/eXpress_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-standard host (express.ms) which is not a common upstream source for open-source projects, posing a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or untrusted.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: stsg
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=express
    
      4pkgver=3.69.44
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Official Express App for Linux"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://express.ms/download/deb"
    
      9license=('unknown')
    
      10depends=(
    
      11  gtk3
    
      12  libnotify
    
      13  nss
    
      14  libxss
    
      15  libxtst
    
      16  xdg-utils
    
      17  at-spi2-core
    
      18  util-linux-libs
    
      19  libsecret
    
      20)
    
      21optdepends=(
    
      22  libappindicator-gtk3
    
      23)
    
      24options=('!strip')
    
      25source=("https://updates.express.ms/desktop/eXpress_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      26sha256sums=('b78e162d2a544c390121fabeb07b6b22c6ca8f5ce4832009c18f5ce96d0d5c08')
    
      27
    
      28package() {
    
      29  tar -xf data.tar.xz --directory "${pkgdir}"
    
      30
    
      31  # Fix GTK version error for Gnome users
    
      32  sed -i 's|Exec="/opt/eXpress/express"|Exec="/opt/eXpress/express" --gtk-version=3|' "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/express.desktop"
    
      33}
    
      34

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-23 00:14
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: stsg
 
 pkgname=express
-pkgver=3.68.44
+pkgver=3.69.44
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Official Express App for Linux"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 )
 options=('!strip')
 source=("https://updates.express.ms/desktop/eXpress_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
-sha256sums=('10f36c05548179828a8c6b052cdc64938b093f0f8663744892ac86f8ef2b7d24')
+sha256sums=('b78e162d2a544c390121fabeb07b6b22c6ca8f5ce4832009c18f5ce96d0d5c08')
 
 package() {
   tar -xf data.tar.xz --directory "${pkgdir}"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
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2026-07-19 19:12:02	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2