official-chatgpt-bin

maintainer heisenberg_1205 · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799
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Why flagged Downloads a prebuilt .deb from persistent.oaistatic.com, which appears to be OpenAI's own CDN/static asset domain for the official ChatGPT desktop app; the checksum is pinned so swapping is detectable, and the host is plausibly official infrastructure rather than a personal/cloud-storage host.

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LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 70%): Downloads a prebuilt .deb from persistent.oaistatic.com, which appears to be OpenAI's own CDN/static asset domain for the official ChatGPT desktop app; the checksum is pinned so swapping is detectable, and the host is plausibly official infrastructure rather than a personal/cloud-storage host.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:44 source_x86_64=('https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/latest/chatgpt_amd64.deb')

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Aditya Hebballe <adityahebbale@gmail.com>
2
3pkgname=official-chatgpt-bin
4pkgver=26.803.81509
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc='The official ChatGPT desktop application for Linux'
7arch=(x86_64)
8url='https://chatgpt.com/'
9license=('LicenseRef-Proprietary')
10depends=(
11 alsa-lib
12 at-spi2-core
13 cairo
14 cups
15 dbus
16 expat
17 gdk-pixbuf2
18 glib2
19 glibc
20 gcc-libs
21 graphite
22 gtk3
23 libdrm
24 libglvnd
25 libnotify
26 libusb
27 libx11
28 libxcomposite
29 libxdamage
30 libxext
31 libxfixes
32 libxkbcommon
33 libxrandr
34 mesa
35 nspr
36 nss
37 openssl
38 pango
39 systemd-libs
40 xdg-utils
41 xz
42)
43options=(!strip)
44source_x86_64=('https://persistent.oaistatic.com/codex-app-prod/linux/deb/latest/chatgpt_amd64.deb')
45sha256sums_x86_64=('a9bf91a368f9f7c4eea38082a9fb8fb46b8d005b719a6d7715d2e5a1982c38eb')
46
47package() {
48 bsdtar -xOf "${srcdir}/chatgpt_amd64.deb" data.tar.xz | bsdtar -xf - -C "${pkgdir}"
49}
50

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2026-08-18 00:03:42 LOW 3
2026-08-17 00:18:29 LOW 3
2026-08-16 00:03:42 LOW 3
2026-08-15 00:26:13 LOW 3
2026-08-14 00:03:41 LOW 3
2026-08-13 00:17:07 LOW 3
2026-08-12 03:25:52 LOW 3
2026-08-12 03:22:23 MEDIUM 2

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