melis-wallet-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer tredaelli 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (Electron/Node.js wallet application) from melis.io, which is the official vendor's own domain. The 'pakages' path (vs 'packages') looks like a typo but is consistent with the vendor's actual distribution URL pattern. The real concern is that this installs a prebuilt binary blob from the vendor without any way to verify the binary's integrity beyond the sha256sum of the zip archive — the binary itself is not reproducibly built from source. This is a standard medium-risk pattern for -bin AUR packages: a prebuilt executable from the upstream vendor's own host, with a checksum. The maintainer is a known Arch Linux developer (tredaelli@archlinux.org), which adds some credibility, but does not eliminate the supply-chain risk inherent in running a prebuilt cryptocurrency wallet binary. The sha256sum provides basic integrity checking. This is a legitimate but inherently risky pattern (prebuilt binary, cryptocurrency wallet) rather than an active attack.

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:13 source=("https://www.melis.io/pakages/linux/production/MelisWallet-linux-x64-$pkgver.zip")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (Electron/Node.js wallet application) from melis.io, which is the official vendor's own domain. The 'pakages' path (vs 'packages') looks like a typo but is consistent with the vendor's actual distribution URL pattern. The real concern is that this installs a prebuilt binary blob from the vendor without any way to verify the binary's integrity beyond the sha256sum of the zip archive — the binary itself is not reproducibly built from source. This is a standard medium-risk pattern for -bin AUR packages: a prebuilt executable from the upstream vendor's own host, with a checksum. The maintainer is a known Arch Linux developer (tredaelli@archlinux.org), which adds some credibility, but does not eliminate the supply-chain risk inherent in running a prebuilt cryptocurrency wallet binary. The sha256sum provides basic integrity checking. This is a legitimate but inherently risky pattern (prebuilt binary, cryptocurrency wallet) rather than an active attack.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli@archlinux.org>
    
      2
    
      3_pkgname=melis-wallet
    
      4pkgname=$_pkgname-bin
    
      5pkgver=1.5.40
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="The most advanced wallet for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin and Groestlcoin."
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://www.melis.io/"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11options=(!strip)
    
      12depends=('alsa-lib' 'libxss' 'libxtst' 'gconf' 'gtk2' 'nss')
    
      13source=("https://www.melis.io/pakages/linux/production/MelisWallet-linux-x64-$pkgver.zip")
    
      14sha256sums=('3bac88a9a7f7f4a45198b106d2b09c96834900fa9fd78dc9dd6a028dd09f41a2')
    
      15
    
      16package() {
    
      17  install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/melis-wallet/
    
      18  install -dm755 "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/
    
      19  cp -a MelisWallet-linux-x64/* "$pkgdir"/usr/lib/melis-wallet/
    
      20  ln -s ../lib/melis-wallet/melis-wallet "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
    
      21  install -Dm644 $srcdir/MelisWallet-linux-x64/LICENSE "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$_pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      22
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      26

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