ourgalaxy-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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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
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2