localxpose-gui

MEDIUM
maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from a DigitalOcean Spaces bucket (lxpdownloads.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com) with sha256sums='SKIP', then executes it during the build phase (--appimage-extract) and installs the extracted contents system-wide. The host is a vendor-controlled CDN bucket rather than a well-known official release host (e.g. GitHub releases), and the skipped checksum means any substitution of the binary would go undetected. The AppImage is executed code, not data, so this is a genuine supply-chain concern: if the bucket were compromised or the URL silently redirected, arbitrary code would run on the builder's machine and be installed system-wide. The pkgver='latest' floating version compounds this by making reproducibility impossible. This matches the classic medium pattern: executed binary from an unofficial/personal host with no integrity verification.

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=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://lxpdownloads.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/gui/LocalXpose-linux-amd64.AppImage"
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from a DigitalOcean Spaces bucket (lxpdownloads.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com) with sha256sums='SKIP', then executes it during the build phase (--appimage-extract) and installs the extracted contents system-wide. The host is a vendor-controlled CDN bucket rather than a well-known official release host (e.g. GitHub releases), and the skipped checksum means any substitution of the binary would go undetected. The AppImage is executed code, not data, so this is a genuine supply-chain concern: if the bucket were compromised or the URL silently redirected, arbitrary code would run on the builder's machine and be installed system-wide. The pkgver='latest' floating version compounds this by making reproducibility impossible. This matches the classic medium pattern: executed binary from an unofficial/personal host with no integrity verification.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Dimitris Kiziridis <ragouel at outlook dot com>
2
3pkgname=localxpose-gui
4pkgver=latest
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="A reverse proxy that enables you to expose your localhost to the internet"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url='https://localxpose.io'
9license=("custom:${pkgname}")
10provides=('localxpose')
11makedepends=('gendesk')
12options=('!strip')
13noextract=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage")
14source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://lxpdownloads.sgp1.digitaloceanspaces.com/gui/LocalXpose-linux-amd64.AppImage"
15 'LICENSE')
16sha256sums=('SKIP'
17 'SKIP')
18
19package() {
20 chmod 755 ./${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage
21 ./${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage --appimage-extract
22 install -Dm644 squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/localxpose.png "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/localxpose-gui.png"
23 gendesk -f -n --pkgname "${pkgname}" \
24 --pkgdesc "$pkgdesc" \
25 --name "LocalXpose" \
26 --comment "$pkgdesc" \
27 --exec "${pkgname}" \
28 --categories 'Network;Application;' \
29 --icon "${pkgname}"
30 install -Dm644 "${pkgname}.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
31 install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
32 install -d "${pkgdir}/opt"
33 cp -avR squashfs-root/ "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
34 ln -s /opt/${pkgname}/AppRun "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
35 find "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
36 find "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}" -type f -exec chmod o-w {} +
37 install -Dm644 LICENSE -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
38}

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