mastergo-uos

MEDIUM

maintainer Integral 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb (an Electron/Chromium-based desktop application) from home-store-packages.uniontech.com, which is the UOS (UnionTech OS / Deepin) app store package mirror — a Chinese Linux distribution's official app store infrastructure, not the upstream vendor's (mastergo.com) own distribution channel. While uniontech.com is a real company (makers of Deepin/UOS Linux), this is still a third-party redistributor rather than the upstream software vendor's own release host. The extracted binary is directly executed (master-desktop is symlinked into /usr/bin), so any tampering or compromise of that host would result in arbitrary code execution. The sha512sum is present and pinned, which mitigates interception risk but not a compromised upstream host. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: a prebuilt, closed-source, executed binary from a third-party redistribution host rather than the software author's official release channel.

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:12 "https://home-store-packages.uniontech.com/appstore/pool/appstore/c/com.mastergo/com.mastergo_${pkgver}_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 package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb (an Electron/Chromium-based desktop application) from home-store-packages.uniontech.com, which is the UOS (UnionTech OS / Deepin) app store package mirror — a Chinese Linux distribution's official app store infrastructure, not the upstream vendor's (mastergo.com) own distribution channel. While uniontech.com is a real company (makers of Deepin/UOS Linux), this is still a third-party redistributor rather than the upstream software vendor's own release host. The extracted binary is directly executed (master-desktop is symlinked into /usr/bin), so any tampering or compromise of that host would result in arbitrary code execution. The sha512sum is present and pinned, which mitigates interception risk but not a compromised upstream host. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: a prebuilt, closed-source, executed binary from a third-party redistribution host rather than the software author's official release channel.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Integral <integral@member.fsf.org>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=mastergo-uos
    
      4pkgver=1.2.1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A professional UI/UX design software for teamwork."
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://mastergo.com/"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10depends=('nss' 'gtk3' 'python' 'alsa-lib')
    
      11source=(
    
      12	"https://home-store-packages.uniontech.com/appstore/pool/appstore/c/com.mastergo/com.mastergo_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      13)
    
      14sha512sums=('06fafdeb12b5196d7029a3a8179ab4697eb20fd1a81b790ff9e5db84d4c5479887d595f3dcf16a20b7bb7bd1fa6ef9ab3fdd9820eef7548f8b6ed8a88e060537')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17	echo "  -> Extracting the data.tar.xz..."
    
      18	bsdtar -xvf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}/"
    
      19	chmod -R 755 "${pkgdir}/"
    
      20
    
      21	echo "  -> Installing..."
    
      22	# Launcher
    
      23	mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
    
      24	ln -s "/opt/apps/com.mastergo/files/master-desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      25	# Desktop Entry
    
      26	install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/com.mastergo/entries/applications/com.mastergo.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/"
    
      27	# Icon
    
      28	install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/com.mastergo/entries/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.mastergo.svg" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/"
    
      29	# License
    
      30	install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/com.mastergo/files/LICENSE.electron.txt" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
    
      31	install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/com.mastergo/files/LICENSES.chromium.html" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
    
      32}
    
      33

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
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2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
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2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2