forticlient

maintainer rhysperry111 · 21 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

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
2026-08-03 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
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	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
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2