icloud-for-linux-git

MEDIUM

maintainer alki 5 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD pulls electron and electron-packager from npm at build time (npm install electron electron-packager) without pinning versions or providing checksums. These are large, complex packages (electron especially bundles a full Chromium build) fetched from the npm registry at whatever version npm resolves to. The resulting Electron binary is then executed via npx electron-packager to produce the final packaged application. While npm/electron are well-known packages and this is a common Electron app packaging pattern, the lack of any version pinning or integrity verification means a compromised or malicious version of either package could execute arbitrary code during the build. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: undeclared external binary dependencies fetched and executed without checksums. The source repo itself is a personal GitHub project (not an official vendor), and the sha256sums is SKIP. This is a real medium-severity supply-chain risk, not a false positive.

Triggered rules

Medium npm/yarn/pnpm install of an undeclared external package npm_install_external

Runs `npm/yarn/pnpm install <package>` for a package not in source=(), pulling unpinned, unreviewed code at build time. Severity downgraded: the package declares/looks like a Node.js consumer, where build-time installs are expected.

PKGBUILD:26 npm install electron electron-packager

Medium npx/bunx/deno executes a remote package remote_code_tool

`npx`/`bunx`/`pnpm dlx`/`deno run <url>` downloads AND runs a remote package at build time — the moral equivalent of piping a download into a shell. Severity downgraded: Node.js consumer context.

PKGBUILD:27 npx electron-packager . --overwrite --platform=linux --output=release-build --prune=true

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 75%): The PKGBUILD pulls electron and electron-packager from npm at build time (npm install electron electron-packager) without pinning versions or providing checksums. These are large, complex packages (electron especially bundles a full Chromium build) fetched from the npm registry at whatever version npm resolves to. The resulting Electron binary is then executed via npx electron-packager to produce the final packaged application. While npm/electron are well-known packages and this is a common Electron app packaging pattern, the lack of any version pinning or integrity verification means a compromised or malicious version of either package could execute arbitrary code during the build. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: undeclared external binary dependencies fetched and executed without checksums. The source repo itself is a personal GitHub project (not an official vendor), and the sha256sums is SKIP. This is a real medium-severity supply-chain risk, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

2 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Wojciech M. Wnuk <laniusone@pm.me>
    
      2
    
      3_pkgbase="icloud-for-linux"
    
      4pkgname="$_pkgbase-git"
    
      5pkgver=r38.66d3cd9
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="iCloud for Linux"
    
      8arch=("x86_64")
    
      9url="https://github.com/wmwnuk/icloud-for-linux"
    
      10license=("GPL")
    
      11depends=('npm' 'nss')
    
      12makedepends=('git')
    
      13provides=("$_pkgbase")
    
      14conflicts=("$_pkgbase")
    
      15backup=()
    
      16source=("git+https://github.com/wmwnuk/icloud-for-linux")
    
      17sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      18
    
      19pkgver() {
    
      20	cd $_pkgbase
    
      21    printf "r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
    
      22}
    
      23
    
      24build() {
    
      25    cd icloud-for-linux
    
      26    npm install electron electron-packager
    
      27    npx electron-packager . --overwrite --platform=linux --output=release-build --prune=true
    
      28}
    
      29
    
      30package() {
    
      31    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
    
      32    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/icloud-for-linux
    
      33    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications
    
      34    mkdir -p "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps
    
      35    cp icloud-for-linux/desktop/* "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications
    
      36    cp icloud-for-linux/icons/* "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps
    
      37    cp -r icloud-for-linux/icloud-for-linux-linux-x64/* "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/icloud-for-linux/
    
      38    ln -s /usr/lib/icloud-for-linux/icloud-for-linux "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/
    
      39}
    
      40

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	3
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	3
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	3
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	3
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	3
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	3
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	3
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	3
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	3
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	3
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	3
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	3
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	3
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	3
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	3
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	3
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	3
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	3
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	3
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	3