phizclip-studio

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage (an executable binary) from a personal/unofficial cloud storage host (pan-dev.xyue.zip on a non-standard HTTPS port 8443). This is a direct-download link to a file-sharing service, not an official vendor release host or a well-known mirror. While a sha256sum is provided, the trust anchor is only as strong as the host: if the file at that URL is silently replaced (the host is under the maintainer's or a third party's control), users would receive a different binary that passes no integrity check beyond the stored hash. AppImages are self-contained executables that run with user privileges and can contain arbitrary code. The combination of an executed binary + unofficial personal host constitutes a genuine supply-chain concern, consistent with a MEDIUM rating.

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:11 "${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.AppImage"::"https://pan-dev.xyue.zip:8443/s/TtN7ozqAmAk2smA/download/PhizClip%20Studio-1.2.0.AppImage"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage (an executable binary) from a personal/unofficial cloud storage host (pan-dev.xyue.zip on a non-standard HTTPS port 8443). This is a direct-download link to a file-sharing service, not an official vendor release host or a well-known mirror. While a sha256sum is provided, the trust anchor is only as strong as the host: if the file at that URL is silently replaced (the host is under the maintainer's or a third party's control), users would receive a different binary that passes no integrity check beyond the stored hash. AppImages are self-contained executables that run with user privileges and can contain arbitrary code. The combination of an executed binary + unofficial personal host constitutes a genuine supply-chain concern, consistent with a MEDIUM rating.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: zaeyee <zaeyee@163.com>
    
      2pkgname="phizclip-studio"
    
      3pkgver="1.2.0"
    
      4pkgrel=3
    
      5pkgdesc="Developer tools for PhizClip"
    
      6arch=("x86_64")
    
      7url="https://open.phiz.chat/"
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9depends=()
    
      10source=(
    
      11  "${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.AppImage"::"https://pan-dev.xyue.zip:8443/s/TtN7ozqAmAk2smA/download/PhizClip%20Studio-1.2.0.AppImage"
    
      12  "${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      13  "${pkgname}.png")
    
      14sha256sums=('01f7b7e312abe19d763315f79c46e91346e54f77e062a0a3efe0eecfa6991eea'
    
      15            'bfcc785d47ed5e0a08be334dfe535f6ee4f7ce4acdc2bdf2adceadfafca13be7'
    
      16            '53239505b912d9cb80a1f3e22ead56edb56a4a0d8b6b99536a6ab46a1ae8e9a1')
    
      17options=(!strip)
    
      18
    
      19package() {
    
      20  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/opt/PhizClip-Studio/PhizClip-Studio.AppImage"
    
      21  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      22  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/PhizClip-Studio.png"
    
      23}
    
      24

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