perssua

maintainer v1cferr · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary Electron binary (.deb) from downloads.perssua.com, which is the project's own distribution host but is not an official Linux distribution mirror or a well-known, audited source. The binary is installed directly and executed by users. The sha256sum provides integrity against accidental corruption but not against a compromised upstream host silently replacing the binary. This is a classic supply-chain risk pattern: a closed-source, prebuilt executable from a small/personal project host with no reproducibility or code audit path. The risk is real but not evidence of active malice — it matches the standard AUR medium pattern for unofficial prebuilt binaries.

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:10 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://downloads.perssua.com/Perssua-${pkgver}-amd64.deb")

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 proprietary Electron binary (.deb) from downloads.perssua.com, which is the project's own distribution host but is not an official Linux distribution mirror or a well-known, audited source. The binary is installed directly and executed by users. The sha256sum provides integrity against accidental corruption but not against a compromised upstream host silently replacing the binary. This is a classic supply-chain risk pattern: a closed-source, prebuilt executable from a small/personal project host with no reproducibility or code audit path. The risk is real but not evidence of active malice — it matches the standard AUR medium pattern for unofficial prebuilt binaries.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Your Name <your.email@example.com>
    
      2pkgname=perssua
    
      3pkgver=0.21.1
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Your AI companion for LeetCode - because sometimes we all feel stupid"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://perssua.com"
    
      8license=('custom:proprietary')
    
      9depends=('nss' 'alsa-lib' 'gtk3' 'libxss') # common electron dependencies
    
      10source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://downloads.perssua.com/Perssua-${pkgver}-amd64.deb")
    
      11sha256sums=('ec07d10b3e360ebd922bd6c16430267f20ff1b05af4b149fc7499db34a5f148e')
    
      12
    
      13package() {
    
      14    # Extract data.tar.*
    
      15    bsdtar -xf data.tar.* -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      16    
    
      17    # Symlink the executable to /usr/bin/perssua so it's in PATH
    
      18    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      19    ln -s "/opt/Perssua/perssua" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/perssua"
    
      20}
    
      21

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