pixso-uos

MEDIUM

maintainer Integral 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb (an Electron/Chromium-based application) from home-store-packages.uniontech.com, which is the Deepin/UOS app store mirror operated by UnionTech (统信软件), the company behind UOS/Deepin Linux. This is not the software vendor's (Pixso/Bosyun) own distribution channel, but rather a third-party app store repository. The binary is a closed-source, prebuilt Electron application that gets executed directly on the user's system. While uniontech.com is a legitimate Chinese Linux distribution company and their app store is a real platform (not a random personal host), it is still not the upstream vendor's official release channel, creating a supply-chain risk: if the package in the UnionTech store were compromised or substituted, users would execute malicious code. The sha512sum provides some integrity protection against in-transit tampering but does not protect against the upstream store serving a malicious binary. This is a genuine medium-severity concern: a prebuilt, closed-source, executed binary from a non-upstream distribution host.

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:14 "https://home-store-packages.uniontech.com/appstore/pool/appstore/c/cn.bosyun.pixso/cn.bosyun.pixso_${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 package downloads a prebuilt binary .deb (an Electron/Chromium-based application) from home-store-packages.uniontech.com, which is the Deepin/UOS app store mirror operated by UnionTech (统信软件), the company behind UOS/Deepin Linux. This is not the software vendor's (Pixso/Bosyun) own distribution channel, but rather a third-party app store repository. The binary is a closed-source, prebuilt Electron application that gets executed directly on the user's system. While uniontech.com is a legitimate Chinese Linux distribution company and their app store is a real platform (not a random personal host), it is still not the upstream vendor's official release channel, creating a supply-chain risk: if the package in the UnionTech store were compromised or substituted, users would execute malicious code. The sha512sum provides some integrity protection against in-transit tampering but does not protect against the upstream store serving a malicious binary. This is a genuine medium-severity concern: a prebuilt, closed-source, executed binary from a non-upstream distribution host.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Integral <integral@member.fsf.org>
    
      2# Maintainer: ston <2424284164@qq.com>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=pixso-uos
    
      5pkgver=1.28.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc="A collaborative UI/UX design software."
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://pixso.cn/"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11depends=('alsa-lib' 'gtk3' 'nss')
    
      12optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: Allow Pixso to extend a menu via Ayatana indicators in Unity, KDE or Systray (GTK+ 3 library).')
    
      13source=(
    
      14    "https://home-store-packages.uniontech.com/appstore/pool/appstore/c/cn.bosyun.pixso/cn.bosyun.pixso_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      15)
    
      16sha512sums=('10b251be950dcd11e9f85dc3aefa49b5ab6fcf4b59aa795785d714184b0fab6d19a33ee50cf23dddc27fbb5ad89f9de8050fad48491b23e2973d0e8e59d6b35e')
    
      17
    
      18package() {
    
      19    echo "  -> Extracting the data.tar.xz..."
    
      20    bsdtar -xvf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}/"
    
      21    chmod -R 755 "${pkgdir}/opt"
    
      22
    
      23    echo "  -> Installing..."
    
      24    # Launcher
    
      25    install -Dm755 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/cn.bosyun.pixso/files/pixso.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      26    # Desktop Entry 
    
      27    install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/cn.bosyun.pixso/entries/applications/cn.bosyun.pixso.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/"
    
      28    # License
    
      29    install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/cn.bosyun.pixso/files/LICENSE.electron.txt" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
    
      30    install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/apps/cn.bosyun.pixso/files/LICENSES.chromium.html" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/"
    
      31}
    
      32

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