ideamaker

maintainer Afdsfaj · 8 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary Debian package (.deb) from downcdn.raise3d.com, which is the official CDN used by Raise3D (the vendor of ideaMaker). The host is not a personal or unofficial mirror — it is the vendor's own download infrastructure. However, the package installs a prebuilt closed-source binary blob directly onto the system without any source build, which is the standard medium-risk pattern for AUR packages wrapping proprietary binaries. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates tampering in transit. The risk is: if Raise3D's CDN is compromised or the maintainer updates the hash to a malicious binary, arbitrary code execution results. This is a genuine but ordinary supply-chain concern for proprietary binary AUR packages, not an active attack. Rated medium consistent with AUR policy on prebuilt binaries from vendor hosts.

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:16 source_x86_64=("https://downcdn.raise3d.com/ideamaker/release/${pkgver}/ideaMaker_${pkgver}.${_pkgverminor}-ubuntu_amd64.deb")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary Debian package (.deb) from downcdn.raise3d.com, which is the official CDN used by Raise3D (the vendor of ideaMaker). The host is not a personal or unofficial mirror — it is the vendor's own download infrastructure. However, the package installs a prebuilt closed-source binary blob directly onto the system without any source build, which is the standard medium-risk pattern for AUR packages wrapping proprietary binaries. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates tampering in transit. The risk is: if Raise3D's CDN is compromised or the maintainer updates the hash to a malicious binary, arbitrary code execution results. This is a genuine but ordinary supply-chain concern for proprietary binary AUR packages, not an active attack. Rated medium consistent with AUR policy on prebuilt binaries from vendor hosts.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Afdsfaj <addart0845@outlook.com>
2# Contributor: swweetp <swweetp@outlook.com>
3# Contributor: Emanuele 'Lele aka eldios' Calo' <xeldiosx@gmail.com>
4# Contributor: Fabien Devaux <fdev31@gmail.com>
5
6pkgname=ideamaker
7pkgver=5.3.2
8_pkgverminor=8640
9pkgrel=1
10pkgdesc="Fast and user friendly 3D slicer for FDM printers"
11arch=('x86_64')
12url="https://www.raise3d.com/pages/ideamaker"
13license=('custom')
14depends=('mesa-libgl' 'desktop-file-utils' 'libxcrypt-compat')
15makedepends=()
16source_x86_64=("https://downcdn.raise3d.com/ideamaker/release/${pkgver}/ideaMaker_${pkgver}.${_pkgverminor}-ubuntu_amd64.deb")
17sha256sums_x86_64=('59988618d849e61fe4c74c20bee479cbc07387bd30eaedfa96503d3883f851fe')
18
19package() {
20 tar xf "$srcdir/data.tar.xz" -C "${pkgdir}"
21 mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
22 ln -fs "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ideamaker/ideamaker-start.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ideamaker"
23 install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/ideamaker/License.rtf" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
24}
25

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