forticlient

MEDIUM

maintainer rhysperry111 21 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (repo.fortinet.com), which is not inherently malicious but presents a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised; however, Fortinet is the official vendor, and the checksum is provided, reducing but not eliminating risk.

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:18 source=("https://repo.fortinet.com/repo/forticlient/8.0/ubuntu/pool/non-free/f/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (repo.fortinet.com), which is not inherently malicious but presents a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised; however, Fortinet is the official vendor, and the checksum is provided, reducing but not eliminating risk.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Rhys <aur at rhysperry dot com>
    
      2# Contributor: Meowser <edward dot o dot holmes at gmail dot com>
    
      3# Contributor: Brendan <ball dot brendan 50 at gmail dot com>
    
      4# Contributor: Harms <thotro at lyse dot net>
    
      5# Contributor: dnikoloski <nikoloskid at proton dot me>
    
      6pkgname=forticlient
    
      7pkgver=8.0.0.0055
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc="Fortinet VPN client ZTNA edition"
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url="https://www.forticlient.com"
    
      12license=('custom')
    
      13groups=()
    
      14provides=(forticlient)
    
      15depends=('libxss' 'libsecret' 'alsa-lib' 'libnotify' 'gtk3' 'nss' 'libxcrypt-compat' 'libappindicator' 'org.freedesktop.secrets')
    
      16optdepends=('qt5-webengine: Webengine-based authentication popup support')
    
      17options=('!strip')
    
      18source=("https://repo.fortinet.com/repo/forticlient/8.0/ubuntu/pool/non-free/f/${pkgname}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      19sha512sums=('29bbec981c29801bef80a4ec546228badeaeea0604bd7034ef49f7cb63e589b5f1cf62a48dc676e62e51257ef46476f79e615e700a3d69a0b2154e111e6e6f95')
    
      20package(){
    
      21
    
      22	# Extract package data
    
      23	tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      24
    
      25	# Fix directory structure differences
    
      26	cd "${pkgdir}"
    
      27
    
      28	mkdir -p usr/lib 2> /dev/null; mv lib/* usr/lib; rm -rf lib
    
      29	mkdir -p var/lib/forticlient
    
      30
    
      31	cd ..
    
      32
    
      33}
    
      34
    
      35

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2