firecamp

MEDIUM
maintainer orphaned 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a DigitalOcean Spaces bucket (firecamp.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com), which is a vendor-controlled object storage host rather than a canonical GitHub releases page or official distribution mirror. The AppImage is extracted and its contents (app.asar, node_modules, services, assets) are installed directly — these are executed JavaScript/Node artifacts. While a sha256sum is provided (mitigating silent substitution to some degree), the host is a personal/vendor S3-style bucket with no transparency log or reproducibility guarantee, and the upstream project appears to be abandoned/discontinued. The node_modules directory being copied verbatim from a binary blob is a meaningful supply-chain concern. This is a genuine medium: an executed binary artifact from a non-standard 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:11 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.orig.appimage::https://firecamp.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/versions/linux/Firecamp-$pkgver.AppImage")
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a DigitalOcean Spaces bucket (firecamp.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com), which is a vendor-controlled object storage host rather than a canonical GitHub releases page or official distribution mirror. The AppImage is extracted and its contents (app.asar, node_modules, services, assets) are installed directly — these are executed JavaScript/Node artifacts. While a sha256sum is provided (mitigating silent substitution to some degree), the host is a personal/vendor S3-style bucket with no transparency log or reproducibility guarantee, and the upstream project appears to be abandoned/discontinued. The node_modules directory being copied verbatim from a binary blob is a meaningful supply-chain concern. This is a genuine medium: an executed binary artifact from a non-standard host, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Bruce Zhang (bruceutut)
2pkgname=firecamp
3pkgver=2.3.1
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc='API platform for your favorite API-style'
6arch=('x86_64')
7url='https://firecamp.io/download'
8license=('custom: Firecamp')
9makedepends=('p7zip')
10depends=('electron12')
11source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.orig.appimage::https://firecamp.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/versions/linux/Firecamp-$pkgver.AppImage")
12sha256sums=('1fd581a94cc3f4f6a3978578e69c6312d69126a026dd0f559a557c72d7db9a66')
13
14prepare() {
15 7z x "$pkgname-$pkgver.orig.appimage" -ofirecamp
16 cd firecamp/resources
17
18 echo "#!/usr/bin/env sh
19export ELECTRON_IS_DEV=0
20exec electron12 /usr/lib/firecamp/app.asar --no-sandbox \$@
21" > "$srcdir/firecamp.sh"
22
23 echo "[Desktop Entry]
24Name=Firecamp
25Exec=/usr/bin/firecamp %U
26Terminal=false
27Type=Application
28Icon=firecamp
29StartupWMClass=Firecamp
30X-AppImage-Version=2.3.1
31Comment=One playstation for all your Request.
32MimeType=x-scheme-handler/fc;
33Categories=Development;
34" > "$srcdir/firecamp.desktop"
35}
36
37package() {
38 cd "$srcdir/firecamp/resources"
39 install -vDm644 app.asar "$pkgdir/usr/lib/firecamp/app.asar"
40 install -vDm644 app-update.yml "$pkgdir/usr/lib/firecamp/app-update.yml"
41 cp -rv {services,node_modules,assets} "$pkgdir/usr/lib/firecamp/"
42 install -vDm755 "$srcdir/firecamp.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/firecamp"
43 install -vDm644 "$srcdir/firecamp.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/firecamp.desktop"
44
45 cd "$srcdir/firecamp"
46 install -vDm644 usr/share/icons/hicolor/0x0/apps/firecamp.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/firecamp.png"
47}
48

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