journee-bin

maintainer orphaned · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from an Amazon S3 bucket (s3.amazonaws.com/journee-app/), extracts it, and installs it system-wide. This is a real supply-chain concern: S3 buckets can be misconfigured, taken over, or have objects replaced without notice, and there is no GPG signature verification — only a sha256sum. The sha256sum provides integrity for the specific version but does not authenticate the publisher. The host is not an official distribution channel (e.g., GitHub Releases for the project at adueck.github.io/journee), it is a personal/app-specific S3 bucket. The binary is executed during build (AppImage --appimage-extract runs the AppImage runtime), and the extracted contents are installed as a full Electron/AppImage application under /opt. This pattern — unverified prebuilt binary from a non-canonical host with no signing — is a textbook medium-severity supply-chain risk, consistent with the original rating.

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=("${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://s3.amazonaws.com/journee-app/Journee-${pkgver}-x86_64.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 a prebuilt AppImage binary from an Amazon S3 bucket (s3.amazonaws.com/journee-app/), extracts it, and installs it system-wide. This is a real supply-chain concern: S3 buckets can be misconfigured, taken over, or have objects replaced without notice, and there is no GPG signature verification — only a sha256sum. The sha256sum provides integrity for the specific version but does not authenticate the publisher. The host is not an official distribution channel (e.g., GitHub Releases for the project at adueck.github.io/journee), it is a personal/app-specific S3 bucket. The binary is executed during build (AppImage --appimage-extract runs the AppImage runtime), and the extracted contents are installed as a full Electron/AppImage application under /opt. This pattern — unverified prebuilt binary from a non-canonical host with no signing — is a textbook medium-severity supply-chain risk, consistent with the original rating.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Dimitris Kiziridis <ragouel at outlook dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=journee-bin
    
      4pkgver=1.1.2
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A simplified, RedNotebook-type journal/diary app. With a focus on minimal design and a distraction free writing environment"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url='https://adueck.github.io/journee'
    
      9license=('Apache')
    
      10provides=('journee')
    
      11makedepends=('gendesk')
    
      12options=('!emptydirs')
    
      13noextract=("${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage")
    
      14source=("${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://s3.amazonaws.com/journee-app/Journee-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage")
    
      15sha256sums=('2b05513db146bc19db8dcb691ecbb9c50425a8e9387a801b5b6175b33c5b027f')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  chmod 755 ./${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage
    
      19  ./${pkgname%-bin}-${pkgver}.AppImage --appimage-extract
    
      20  install -Dm644 squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/journee.png "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/journee.png"
    
      21  gendesk -f -n --pkgname "${pkgname%-bin}" \
    
      22          --pkgdesc "$pkgdesc" \
    
      23          --name "Journee" \
    
      24          --comment "$pkgdesc" \
    
      25          --exec "${pkgname%-bin}" \
    
      26          --categories 'Office;Application;' \
    
      27          --icon "${pkgname%-bin}"
    
      28  install -Dm644 "${pkgname%-bin}.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      29  install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      30  install -d "${pkgdir}/opt"
    
      31  cp -avR squashfs-root/ "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname%-bin}"
    
      32  ln -s /opt/${pkgname%-bin}/AppRun "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname%-bin}"
    
      33  find "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname%-bin}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      34}

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