n1-translator

MEDIUM

maintainer biankabudner 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD installs 'deep-translator' via pip directly from PyPI during the package() phase without any version pin or checksum verification. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: the package is fetched at build time from an external source outside AUR's normal dependency/checksum framework, meaning any version of deep-translator (including a potentially compromised one) could be installed. The correct approach would be to declare 'python-deep-translator' as a depends entry (if it exists in the AUR/repos) or to vendor/pin the dependency. Additionally, sha256sums is set to 'SKIP' for the main source tarball, removing integrity verification. These two issues together represent a real, if not clearly malicious, supply-chain risk.

Triggered rules

Medium pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

PKGBUILD:35 pip install --root="$pkgdir" --prefix=/usr --no-deps deep-translator

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD installs 'deep-translator' via pip directly from PyPI during the package() phase without any version pin or checksum verification. This is a genuine supply-chain concern: the package is fetched at build time from an external source outside AUR's normal dependency/checksum framework, meaning any version of deep-translator (including a potentially compromised one) could be installed. The correct approach would be to declare 'python-deep-translator' as a depends entry (if it exists in the AUR/repos) or to vendor/pin the dependency. Additionally, sha256sums is set to 'SKIP' for the main source tarball, removing integrity verification. These two issues together represent a real, if not clearly malicious, supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: kurojs <kuro@kurojs.dev>
    
      2# Contributor: kurojs <kuro@kurojs.dev>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=n1-translator
    
      5pkgver=1.0.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="Real-time Japanese->Spanish overlay translator for KDE Plasma"
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url="https://github.com/kurojs/n1-translator"
    
      10license=('MIT')
    
      11depends=(
    
      12    'pyside6'
    
      13    'wl-clipboard'
    
      14    'python'
    
      15)
    
      16makedepends=(
    
      17    'python-build'
    
      18    'python-installer'
    
      19    'python-wheel'
    
      20    'python-pip'
    
      21    'git'
    
      22)
    
      23source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://github.com/kurojs/${pkgname}/archive/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
    
      24sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      25
    
      26build() {
    
      27    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      28    python -m build --wheel --no-isolation
    
      29}
    
      30
    
      31package() {
    
      32    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      33    python -m installer --destdir="$pkgdir" dist/*.whl
    
      34
    
      35    pip install --root="$pkgdir" --prefix=/usr --no-deps deep-translator
    
      36
    
      37    install -Dm644 assets/n1-translator.desktop \
    
      38        "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/n1-translator.desktop"
    
      39    install -Dm644 assets/n1-translator.png \
    
      40        "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/n1-translator.png"
    
      41}
    
      42

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2