minergate-cli

maintainer raymondbarbey · 8 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from vin.ovh, a personal domain belonging to the maintainer, rather than from the official MinerGate distribution servers (minergate.com). The package installs executables and bundled libraries directly from this unofficial host. Even with a sha256sum present, the hash only verifies the file hasn't changed since the PKGBUILD was written — it doesn't establish that the binary originated from MinerGate's official build pipeline. A prebuilt closed-source cryptocurrency miner binary from a personal host represents a genuine supply-chain risk: the maintainer could substitute a malicious binary at any time by updating both the file and the checksum. This is a textbook medium-severity concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

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:11 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://vin.ovh/MinerGate-xFast-cli-1.7-ubuntu.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from vin.ovh, a personal domain belonging to the maintainer, rather than from the official MinerGate distribution servers (minergate.com). The package installs executables and bundled libraries directly from this unofficial host. Even with a sha256sum present, the hash only verifies the file hasn't changed since the PKGBUILD was written — it doesn't establish that the binary originated from MinerGate's official build pipeline. A prebuilt closed-source cryptocurrency miner binary from a personal host represents a genuine supply-chain risk: the maintainer could substitute a malicious binary at any time by updating both the file and the checksum. This is a textbook medium-severity concern: an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: JustKidding <jk@vin.ovh>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=minergate-cli
    
      4pkgver=1.7
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="MinerGate xFast CLI Miner"
    
      7arch=("x86_64")
    
      8url="http://www.minergate.com/"
    
      9provides=("minergate-cli")
    
      10license=("custom")
    
      11source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://vin.ovh/MinerGate-xFast-cli-1.7-ubuntu.deb")
    
      12sha256sums=("bff127436b13a455c2022052d67156313163f53a1ee1835c0756d39adf591a77")
    
      13options=(!strip) # Doesn't work without disabling this option
    
      14depends=() # Minergate comes bundled with its own libraries
    
      15
    
      16prepare() {
    
      17    # All is done in ${srcdir}
    
      18    mkdir minergate-data
    
      19    tar xf data.tar.gz -C minergate-data
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    cd ${srcdir}/minergate-data
    
      24    chmod -R g-w usr opt
    
      25    mv usr opt "${pkgdir}"
    
      26}
    
      27

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