metaelite-proton

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Windows MSI binary from cdn.raxxla.org, which is a CDN associated with the raxxla.org project (an Elite Dangerous companion tool), not an official software distribution channel like GitHub releases or a major package registry. The MSI is extracted and its contents (including a .exe) are installed into /opt and later executed via a wrapper script under Proton-GE. The integrity check uses only MD5 (weak, collision-prone) rather than SHA256/SHA512, and there are no PGP signatures. While raxxla.org appears to be a legitimate fan/community project for Elite Dangerous, the binary is sourced from a personal/project CDN with no cryptographic verification beyond a weak MD5 hash. This constitutes a genuine supply-chain concern: if cdn.raxxla.org is compromised or the file is silently replaced, users would execute arbitrary Windows PE code inside their Proton prefix. The risk is real but not clearly malicious — this is a medium-severity supply-chain concern.

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:22 source=("https://cdn.raxxla.org/install/MetaElite-${pkgver}.msi"

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 Windows MSI binary from cdn.raxxla.org, which is a CDN associated with the raxxla.org project (an Elite Dangerous companion tool), not an official software distribution channel like GitHub releases or a major package registry. The MSI is extracted and its contents (including a .exe) are installed into /opt and later executed via a wrapper script under Proton-GE. The integrity check uses only MD5 (weak, collision-prone) rather than SHA256/SHA512, and there are no PGP signatures. While raxxla.org appears to be a legitimate fan/community project for Elite Dangerous, the binary is sourced from a personal/project CDN with no cryptographic verification beyond a weak MD5 hash. This constitutes a genuine supply-chain concern: if cdn.raxxla.org is compromised or the file is silently replaced, users would execute arbitrary Windows PE code inside their Proton prefix. The risk is real but not clearly malicious — this is a medium-severity supply-chain concern.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Alexander Mot <alexander@amot.dev>
    
      2pkgname=metaelite-proton
    
      3pkgver=1.02
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5epoch=
    
      6pkgdesc="Role playing environment for stories in Elite Dangerous. Runs in ED's Proton-GE prefix"
    
      7arch=('any')
    
      8url="https://raxxla.org"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10groups=()
    
      11depends=('protontricks' 'proton-ge-custom')
    
      12makedepends=('msitools' 'icoutils')
    
      13checkdepends=()
    
      14optdepends=()
    
      15provides=('metaelite')
    
      16conflicts=()
    
      17replaces=()
    
      18backup=()
    
      19options=()
    
      20install=metaelite-proton.install
    
      21changelog=
    
      22source=("https://cdn.raxxla.org/install/MetaElite-${pkgver}.msi"
    
      23        "metaelite-proton"
    
      24		"metaelite-proton.desktop")
    
      25md5sums=('312d80d06abc0a95f56baa69d43d87d5'
    
      26         'afe5965bc05c378cf362ff515d287203'
    
      27         'e039e8c693ba247fb0bd2186d4ad5831')
    
      28noextract=()
    
      29validpgpkeys=()
    
      30
    
      31package() {
    
      32    # Extract MSI
    
      33    msiextract "MetaElite-${pkgver}.msi" -C "$srcdir"
    
      34
    
      35    # Install binaries
    
      36    install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
    
      37    cp -r "${srcdir}/raxxla.org/MetaElite/"* "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/"
    
      38
    
      39    # Rename exe and its matching cfg to be version-agnostic
    
      40    mv "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/MetaElite-${pkgver}.exe" "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/MetaElite.exe"
    
      41    mv "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/app/MetaElite-${pkgver}.cfg" "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/app/MetaElite.cfg"
    
      42
    
      43    # Install wrapper script
    
      44    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}"
    
      45
    
      46    # Install desktop file
    
      47    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      48
    
      49    # Create icons
    
      50    mkdir -p icons
    
      51    msg2 "Extracting icons..."
    
      52    wrestool -x -t 14 "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/MetaElite.exe" -o metaelite.ico                                                                 
    
      53    icotool -x metaelite.ico -o icons/
    
      54
    
      55    # Install icons (auto-detect valid sizes)
    
      56    cd icons
    
      57    for icon in *.png; do
    
      58        res=$(echo "$icon" | cut -d'_' -f3 | cut -d'x' -f1)
    
      59        if [[ "$res" =~ ^(16|24|32|48|64|96|128|256)$ ]]; then
    
      60            install -Dm644 "$icon" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/apps/${pkgname}.png"
    
      61        fi
    
      62    done
    
      63}
    
      64

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