mega

MEDIUM

maintainer malacology 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (megasoftware.net), which is not a standard AUR source, and installs it without verification of the build process, posing a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised.

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:18 source=("https://megasoftware.net/releases/mega_$pkgver-1_amd64.deb")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted host (megasoftware.net), which is not a standard AUR source, and installs it without verification of the build process, posing a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Malacology <guoyizhang at malacology dot net>
    
      2# Contributor: Malacology <guoyizhang at malacology dot net>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=mega
    
      5_pkgname=mega
    
      6pkgver=12.1.4
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy096"
    
      9arch=('x86_64')
    
      10url="https://megasoftware.net"
    
      11license=('custom')
    
      12depends=(
    
      13	'desktop-file-utils'
    
      14	'gconf'
    
      15	'gtk2'
    
      16	'hicolor-icon-theme'
    
      17)
    
      18source=("https://megasoftware.net/releases/mega_$pkgver-1_amd64.deb")
    
      19sha256sums=('875ca7fffbbd84f2eb53fd27b956fd3c81c351f8c8c8e661a57ea01d1d4b2d9d')
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22	tar -I zstd -xpvf  data.tar.zst -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      23	chmod 755 -R ${pkgdir}/usr
    
      24	cp -r ${pkgdir}/usr/local/* ${pkgdir}/usr/
    
      25	rm -r ${pkgdir}/usr/local
    
      26	sed -i "s/Exec=mega/Exec=mega %U/g" $pkgdir/usr/share/applications/mega.desktop
    
      27}
    
      28

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-23 00:02
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 pkgname=mega
 _pkgname=mega
-pkgver=12.1.2
+pkgver=12.1.4
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msy096"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 	'hicolor-icon-theme'
 )
 source=("https://megasoftware.net/releases/mega_$pkgver-1_amd64.deb")
-sha256sums=('e8ad7b7e174f66ce38a88783960af4fedeaf3b4ce79d7589b3cb8fa7d6d87418')
+sha256sums=('875ca7fffbbd84f2eb53fd27b956fd3c81c351f8c8c8e661a57ea01d1d4b2d9d')
 
 package() {
 	tar -I zstd -xpvf  data.tar.zst -C "${pkgdir}"

Scan history

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
2026-10-23 19:38:15	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
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
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2