perssua

MEDIUM

maintainer v1cferr 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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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

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