insync

MEDIUM

maintainer thenaterhood 324 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (cdn.insynchq.com), which is an unverifiable executable artifact; while the domain is plausibly official, the lack of a direct link to upstream source and use of a binary-only distribution raises supply-chain 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:29 source=("http://cdn.insynchq.com/builds/linux/${pkgver}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-${_dist}_amd64.deb"

Medium AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed it and judged it MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (cdn.insynchq.com), which is an unverifiable executable artifact; while the domain is plausibly official, the lack of a direct link to upstream source and use of a binary-only distribution raises supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Nate Levesque <public@thenaterhood.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Erik Dubois <erik.dubois@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: tinywrkb <tinywrkb@gmail.com>
    
      4# Contributor: Vlad M. <vlad@archlinux.net>
    
      5# Contributor: Zhengyu Xu <xzy3186@gmail.com>
    
      6# Source : new application - https://forums.insynchq.com
    
      7
    
      8pkgname=insync
    
      9pkgver=3.9.11.60043
    
      10pkgrel=1
    
      11_dist=noble
    
      12pkgdesc="An unofficial Dropbox, Google Drive, and OneDrive client that runs on Linux, with support for various desktops"
    
      13url="https://www.insynchq.com/downloads"
    
      14license=('custom:insync')
    
      15options=(!strip)
    
      16depends=('alsa-lib'
    
      17         'fontconfig'
    
      18         'glibc'
    
      19         'hicolor-icon-theme'
    
      20         'libglvnd'
    
      21         'nss'
    
      22         'xdg-utils'
    
      23         'libxcrypt'
    
      24)
    
      25optdepends=(
    
      26         'lib32-libappindicator-gtk2: Required for tray icon in some configurations'
    
      27)
    
      28arch=('x86_64')
    
      29source=("http://cdn.insynchq.com/builds/linux/${pkgver}/${pkgname}_${pkgver}-${_dist}_amd64.deb"
    
      30    'insync@.service'
    
      31    'insync.service')
    
      32sha256sums=('7adca8fe8b9c76250e4687a70b028e5902b9f444a7cb260c87734a14c9ae1ff0'
    
      33            'cf276c1dbf1592ea63a21c2d61c75f7ad6ec3b13e87b3aaa331e9c14799f4598'
    
      34            '1432141539a6b3c5333631a2ee6696fab9bd2fe8770643bc670d95e4e96203e0')
    
      35package() {
    
      36   tar xf data.tar.gz
    
      37   cp -rp usr ${pkgdir}/
    
      38   install -Dm644 insync@.service ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/insync@.service
    
      39   install -Dm644 insync.service ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/user/insync.service
    
      40   install -dm755  ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0
    
      41   ln -s /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders.cache
    
      42   echo "-> Patching https://forums.insynchq.com/t/crash-when-changing-sync-folders-linux-with-solution/17254/4"
    
      43   mv ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/insync/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0{,.bak}
    
      44   echo "-> Patching https://forums.insynchq.com/t/crash-changing-sync-directory-with-fix/17364/10"
    
      45   mv ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/insync/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0{,.bak}
    
      46   echo "-> Patching https://forums.insynchq.com/t/gui-is-broken-on-arch-for-3-7-7-with-workaround/18434"
    
      47   mv ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/insync/libstdc++.so.6{,.bak}
    
      48   echo "-> Patching https://forums.insynchq.com/t/workaround-for-libcrypt-so-1-issue-on-3-7-9-for-arch/18504"
    
      49   ln -s /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2 ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/insync/libcrypt.so.1
    
      50   echo "-> Patching https://forums.insynchq.com/t/no-window-decorations-on-gnome-using-wayland/34886/6"
    
      51   sed -i 's/Exec=insync start/Exec=env QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb insync start/g' ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/insync.desktop
    
      52}
    
      53

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