jidugs

maintainer taotieren · 0 votes · base jidugs-appimage · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads and executes a prebuilt AppImage binary from wlhex.com, which appears to be the vendor's own domain (the app URL is jidugs.wlhex.com and the download is from jidugs.wlhex.com/download/). This is consistent with a small Chinese software vendor hosting their own releases rather than using GitHub releases or a major CDN. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks. However, the host is not a well-known, auditable release infrastructure, the software is proprietary with a commercial license, and the AppImage is executed during prepare() via --appimage-extract to unpack it. A compromised or malicious AppImage from this host would result in arbitrary code execution at install time. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: a closed-source binary from a small, unverifiable vendor host that is executed during the build process, even though it appears to be the legitimate upstream distribution channel for this product.

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:23 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage::https://jidugs.wlhex.com/download/极度公式-${pkgver}.AppImage")

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 and executes a prebuilt AppImage binary from wlhex.com, which appears to be the vendor's own domain (the app URL is jidugs.wlhex.com and the download is from jidugs.wlhex.com/download/). This is consistent with a small Chinese software vendor hosting their own releases rather than using GitHub releases or a major CDN. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks. However, the host is not a well-known, auditable release infrastructure, the software is proprietary with a commercial license, and the AppImage is executed during prepare() via --appimage-extract to unpack it. A compromised or malicious AppImage from this host would result in arbitrary code execution at install time. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: a closed-source binary from a small, unverifiable vendor host that is executed during the build process, even though it appears to be the legitimate upstream distribution channel for this product.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: taotieren <admin@taotieren.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgbase=jidugs-appimage
    
      4pkgname=jidugs
    
      5pkgver=1.5.1
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="极度公式 公式一键识别快速转换，几十项技术创新助力，快捷方便！"
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://jidugs.wlhex.com/"
    
      10license=('LicenseRef-scancode-commercial-license')
    
      11provides=(${pkgname})
    
      12conflicts=(${pkgname})
    
      13replaces=()
    
      14depends=(
    
      15    glibc
    
      16    hicolor-icon-theme
    
      17    zlib
    
      18)
    
      19makedepends=()
    
      20backup=()
    
      21options=(!strip !debug)
    
      22install=
    
      23source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage::https://jidugs.wlhex.com/download/极度公式-${pkgver}.AppImage")
    
      24sha256sums=('9398aacff7ec91d5e998a24c739500062d2fbce5617b050470cbcc52fad4d7ad')
    
      25
    
      26_install_path="/opt/appimages"
    
      27
    
      28prepare() {
    
      29
    
      30    chmod a+x ${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.AppImage
    
      31    "./${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.AppImage" --appimage-extract >/dev/null
    
      32    sed 's|AppRun|/opt/appimages/jidugs.AppImage|g' -i "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/jidugspc.desktop"
    
      33}
    
      34
    
      35package() {
    
      36    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/${_install_path}/${pkgname}.AppImage"
    
      37
    
      38    local _icon
    
      39    for _icon in 16 32 64 128 256 512 1024; do
    
      40        install -Dm0644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${_icon}x${_icon}/apps/jidugspc.png" \
    
      41            -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${_icon}x${_icon}/apps"
    
      42    done
    
      43
    
      44    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/jidugspc.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      45    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}"/squashfs-root/LICENSE* -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      46}
    
      47

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