minergate-gui

maintainer annikkitikkanen · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from a personal domain (vin.ovh) owned by the maintainer, not from the official Minergate distribution infrastructure (minergate.com). This is a real supply-chain concern: the maintainer is self-hosting a closed-source, proprietary binary miner and installing it directly into the system. There is no way to verify this binary matches any official Minergate release. The binary is extracted and installed into /usr and /opt, meaning arbitrary code runs with user privileges. The sha256sum provides integrity against accidental corruption but not against intentional substitution by the host owner. This is a textbook medium-severity supply-chain risk: an executed proprietary 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=("https://vin.ovh/MinerGate-xFast-gui-${pkgver}-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 a personal domain (vin.ovh) owned by the maintainer, not from the official Minergate distribution infrastructure (minergate.com). This is a real supply-chain concern: the maintainer is self-hosting a closed-source, proprietary binary miner and installing it directly into the system. There is no way to verify this binary matches any official Minergate release. The binary is extracted and installed into /usr and /opt, meaning arbitrary code runs with user privileges. The sha256sum provides integrity against accidental corruption but not against intentional substitution by the host owner. This is a textbook medium-severity supply-chain risk: an executed proprietary binary from an unofficial/personal host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: JustKidding <jk@vin.ovh>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=minergate-gui
    
      4pkgver=1.7
    
      5pkgrel=3
    
      6pkgdesc="Minergate xFast GUI Miner"
    
      7arch=("x86_64")
    
      8url="http://www.minergate.com/"
    
      9provides=("minergate-gui")
    
      10license=("custom")
    
      11source=("https://vin.ovh/MinerGate-xFast-gui-${pkgver}-ubuntu.deb")
    
      12sha256sums=("1b24f3785a68043092366a9195524becbe8c589257b365628a0cb271d75e465f")
    
      13options=(!strip)
    
      14depends=('ocl-icd' 'qt5-websockets' 'icu')
    
      15
    
      16
    
      17prepare() {
    
      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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