hexhub

MEDIUM

maintainer YangYuS8 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from oss.hexhub.cn, which is the vendor's own CDN/OSS host (matching the official site hexhub.cn), extracts it, and installs the contents. The host is not a well-known, independently verifiable mirror, but it does appear to be the vendor's own storage bucket. The core concern is that a prebuilt binary is being executed (chmod +x and --appimage-extract runs the AppImage), and the entire extracted contents are installed to /opt. There is a sha256sum check, which mitigates silent substitution to some degree, but the binary itself is opaque and unauditable. This is a classic medium-risk pattern: a closed-source prebuilt binary from a vendor-controlled but non-mainstream host, with no source build. Not clearly malicious, but a genuine supply-chain concern.

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:14 source=('https://oss.hexhub.cn/plugin/HexHub-amd64-appimage-1.3.0.AppImage')

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from oss.hexhub.cn, which is the vendor's own CDN/OSS host (matching the official site hexhub.cn), extracts it, and installs the contents. The host is not a well-known, independently verifiable mirror, but it does appear to be the vendor's own storage bucket. The core concern is that a prebuilt binary is being executed (chmod +x and --appimage-extract runs the AppImage), and the entire extracted contents are installed to /opt. There is a sha256sum check, which mitigates silent substitution to some degree, but the binary itself is opaque and unauditable. This is a classic medium-risk pattern: a closed-source prebuilt binary from a vendor-controlled but non-mainstream host, with no source build. Not clearly malicious, but a genuine supply-chain concern.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: wwxiaoqi <tahicoing@gmail.com>
    
      2# 1.3.0 updated by: YangYuS8 <YangYuS8@163.com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=hexhub
    
      5pkgver=1.3.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="database, docker, ssh, sftp. all in one"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url='https://www.hexhub.cn/'
    
      10license=('GPL')
    
      11depends=()
    
      12conflicts=()
    
      13options=("!strip" "!debug")
    
      14source=('https://oss.hexhub.cn/plugin/HexHub-amd64-appimage-1.3.0.AppImage')
    
      15sha256sums=('af03d64d97e671c14ffd29fa22bdef4eac5fe00f2448c8acf5b4ef34259dba2a')
    
      16
    
      17_pkgname=HexHub-amd64-appimage-1.3.0.AppImage
    
      18noextract=("$_pkgname")
    
      19
    
      20prepare() {
    
      21    chmod +x "$_pkgname"
    
      22    ./"$_pkgname" --appimage-extract > /dev/null
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25build() {
    
      26    # Adjust .desktop so it will work autside of AppImage container
    
      27    sed -i \
    
      28        -e "s|Exec=HexHub|Exec=/opt/$pkgname/AppRun|" \
    
      29        -e "s+^Icon=.*+Icon=hexhub-bin+" \
    
      30        -e "s|^Terminal=true|Terminal=false|" \
    
      31        -e "s|^NoDisplay=true|NoDisplay=false|" \
    
      32        "squashfs-root/appimagetool.desktop"
    
      33
    
      34    # Fix work no so files.
    
      35    sed -i \
    
      36        -e "s|cd \"\$(dirname \"\$0\")\"|cd /opt/$pkgname|" \
    
      37        "squashfs-root/AppRun"
    
      38}
    
      39
    
      40package() {
    
      41    # Icon images
    
      42    install -Dm644 "squashfs-root/hexhub.png" \
    
      43            "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/hexhub-bin.png"
    
      44    
    
      45    # Desktop file
    
      46    install -Dm644 "$srcdir/squashfs-root/appimagetool.desktop" \
    
      47            "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/HexHub.desktop"
    
      48    
    
      49    # Copy executable
    
      50    mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname"
    
      51    cp -r "$srcdir/squashfs-root/." "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/"
    
      52
    
      53    # Copy Bin run file
    
      54    install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      55    cp -r "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/AppRun" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/hexhub"
    
      56}
    
      57

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