nerimity-bin

maintainer joddabod4 · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The AppImage is downloaded from the official GitHub releases page of the upstream project (github.com/Nerimity/nerimity-desktop), which is the canonical and expected source for this software. The favicon is fetched from the project's own domain (nerimity.com). Both sources are legitimate and project-owned. The use of 'SKIP' checksums is sloppy packaging practice and means integrity is not verified at build time, but this is a common (if discouraged) pattern in AUR -bin packages and does not constitute an active supply-chain attack — GitHub's TLS and release infrastructure provide some protection. There is no obfuscation, no unofficial/personal host, no piracy, and no broken logic. The risk is low: sloppy but not a genuine security concern beyond the general caveat of running any prebuilt binary.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 85%): The AppImage is downloaded from the official GitHub releases page of the upstream project (github.com/Nerimity/nerimity-desktop), which is the canonical and expected source for this software. The favicon is fetched from the project's own domain (nerimity.com). Both sources are legitimate and project-owned. The use of 'SKIP' checksums is sloppy packaging practice and means integrity is not verified at build time, but this is a common (if discouraged) pattern in AUR -bin packages and does not constitute an active supply-chain attack — GitHub's TLS and release infrastructure provide some protection. There is no obfuscation, no unofficial/personal host, no piracy, and no broken logic. The risk is low: sloppy but not a genuine security concern beyond the general caveat of running any prebuilt binary.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:18 "nerimity.ico::https://nerimity.com/favicon.ico"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Dessyume <dess@dessyu.me>
    
      2
    
      3_pkgname=nerimity
    
      4pkgname=nerimity-bin
    
      5pkgver=2.2.0
    
      6pkgrel=3
    
      7pkgdesc="A modern and sleek chat app."
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://github.com/Nerimity/nerimity-desktop"
    
      10license=('custom:unknown')
    
      11depends=('fuse2' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
    
      12options=('!strip')
    
      13
    
      14_appimage="Nerimity-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      15
    
      16source=(
    
      17  "${_appimage}::${url}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${_appimage}"
    
      18  "nerimity.ico::https://nerimity.com/favicon.ico"
    
      19)
    
      20
    
      21sha256sums=('SKIP' 'SKIP')
    
      22
    
      23prepare() {
    
      24  chmod +x "${srcdir}/${_appimage}"
    
      25  "${srcdir}/${_appimage}" --appimage-extract
    
      26}
    
      27
    
      28build() {
    
      29  :
    
      30}
    
      31
    
      32package() {
    
      33  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${_appimage}" "${pkgdir}/opt/nerimity/nerimity.AppImage"
    
      34
    
      35  install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/nerimity" <<'EOF'
    
      36#!/bin/sh
    
      37exec /opt/nerimity/nerimity.AppImage "$@"
    
      38EOF
    
      39
    
      40  install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/nerimity.desktop" <<'EOF'
    
      41[Desktop Entry]
    
      42Name=Nerimity
    
      43Comment=A modern and sleek chat app.
    
      44Exec=nerimity %U
    
      45Icon=nerimity
    
      46Terminal=false
    
      47Type=Application
    
      48Categories=Network;Chat;
    
      49StartupNotify=true
    
      50EOF
    
      51
    
      52  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/nerimity.ico" \
    
      53    "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/nerimity.ico"
    
      54}
    
      55

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2