plaid-cli

LOW

maintainer goddard 0 votes scanned 2026-10-17 00:21:55.226236

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Why flagged

Prebuilt binary downloaded from releases.plaid.com, which is plausibly Plaid's own official release infrastructure matching the declared project URL (plaid.com); checksums are provided and pinned, so the main concern is just that it's a prebuilt binary from a non-whitelisted subdomain rather than any clear malicious behaviour.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 70%): Prebuilt binary downloaded from releases.plaid.com, which is plausibly Plaid's own official release infrastructure matching the declared project URL (plaid.com); checksums are provided and pinned, so the main concern is just that it's a prebuilt binary from a non-whitelisted subdomain rather than any clear malicious behaviour.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:12 source_x86_64=("https://releases.plaid.com/plaid-cli/releases/${_pkgver}/plaid-cli_${_pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Ryein Goddard <ryein at live dot com>
    
      2pkgname=plaid-cli
    
      3_pkgver=20260507-4d1b0ca0
    
      4pkgver=${_pkgver//-/.}
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='CLI for the Plaid API'
    
      7arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      8url='https://plaid.com/docs/resources/cli/'
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-Plaid')
    
      10options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      11provides=('plaid')
    
      12source_x86_64=("https://releases.plaid.com/plaid-cli/releases/${_pkgver}/plaid-cli_${_pkgver}_linux_amd64.tar.gz")
    
      13source_aarch64=("https://releases.plaid.com/plaid-cli/releases/${_pkgver}/plaid-cli_${_pkgver}_linux_arm64.tar.gz")
    
      14sha256sums_x86_64=('6f8c13d16bdadb7e171920891eb148b1d7494ae76511ac20e37e79f2bf110fa5')
    
      15sha256sums_aarch64=('ac3b5c2bd39ef34dc61872aa0a3b86a0581526860f9c1a9bc5006fc3665178bf')
    
      16
    
      17check() {
    
      18  "$srcdir/plaid" --version | grep -Fq "$_pkgver"
    
      19}
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  install -Dm755 plaid "$pkgdir/usr/bin/plaid"
    
      23}
    
      24

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2
2026-10-12 00:18:51	Low	2
2026-10-11 00:26:05	Low	2
2026-10-10 00:11:52	Low	2
2026-10-09 00:05:33	Low	2
2026-10-08 00:28:03	Low	2
2026-10-07 00:21:34	Low	2
2026-10-06 00:13:36	Low	2
2026-10-05 00:08:03	Low	2
2026-10-04 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-10-03 00:23:04	Low	2
2026-10-02 00:00:32	Low	2
2026-10-01 00:02:06	Low	2
2026-09-30 00:20:07	Low	2
2026-09-29 00:07:46	Low	2
2026-09-28 00:28:32	Low	2