ourgalaxy-bin

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary (OurGalaxy_Linux.zip) from otherwise.com, which is not an official distribution channel recognized by any major software registry. The binary is extracted and installed to /opt with execute permissions set explicitly. While a sha256sum is provided (providing integrity against accidental corruption or CDN tampering), it does not protect against the upstream host serving a malicious binary from the start, nor does it provide any code transparency. The host 'otherwise.com' appears to be a personal or small-vendor site rather than an established software distribution platform. Installing an opaque prebuilt binary from such a host constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk: if the host is compromised or the maintainer is malicious, arbitrary code executes on the user's system. This is a textbook medium-severity AUR concern — not clearly malicious, but a real supply-chain risk due to an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host with no source code available for review.

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:9 source=("https://otherwise.com/OurGalaxy_Linux.zip" "ourgalaxy.desktop")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt x86_64 binary (OurGalaxy_Linux.zip) from otherwise.com, which is not an official distribution channel recognized by any major software registry. The binary is extracted and installed to /opt with execute permissions set explicitly. While a sha256sum is provided (providing integrity against accidental corruption or CDN tampering), it does not protect against the upstream host serving a malicious binary from the start, nor does it provide any code transparency. The host 'otherwise.com' appears to be a personal or small-vendor site rather than an established software distribution platform. Installing an opaque prebuilt binary from such a host constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk: if the host is compromised or the maintainer is malicious, arbitrary code executes on the user's system. This is a textbook medium-severity AUR concern — not clearly malicious, but a real supply-chain risk due to an executed binary from an unofficial/personal host with no source code available for review.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1pkgname="ourgalaxy-bin"
    
      2_pkgname="ourgalaxy"
    
      3pkgver=2.1.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="app that helps you understand the structural components of the Galaxy"
    
      6arch=("x86_64")
    
      7url='https://www.otherwise.com/'
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9source=("https://otherwise.com/OurGalaxy_Linux.zip" "ourgalaxy.desktop")
    
      10sha256sums=('2950167d6bad4b1c841326b8d57f60e195dfba1e2bea31b7e176183daac1d9e1' 'd4640e10132c6615870bd5040dd47ed15e9ab5eeba42a2014e6089f55b78494b')
    
      11
    
      12package() {
    
      13	install -d "${pkgdir}/opt"
    
      14	install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      15
    
      16	cp -r "${srcdir}/OurGalaxy_Linux/" "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}"
    
      17	chmod +x "${pkgdir}/opt/${_pkgname}/OurGalaxy_Linux.x86_64"
    
      18
    
      19	install -m644 "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      20}
    
      21
    
      22

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