forticlient

MEDIUM

maintainer rhysperry111 21 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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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
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2