nerimity-bin

LOW

maintainer joddabod4 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      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
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2