platinum

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt application archive (app.tar.xz) from a personal Vercel deployment (vue-slwyts.vercel.app) that is not the official project domain (platinum.flysoftbeta.cn). This is a personal/unofficial host with no verifiable connection to the upstream project's release infrastructure. The archive is extracted and its contents (the 'app' directory) are installed directly into /opt/platinum and executed via an Electron wrapper. While md5sums are present, MD5 is cryptographically weak and the hash itself could be updated alongside a malicious payload. The duplicate source= assignment (first line is overridden by the second) is sloppy but not itself a security issue. The core concern is a prebuilt binary blob from an unofficial personal hosting service being installed and executed — a genuine supply-chain risk warranting medium severity.

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:24 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz::https://vue-slwyts.vercel.app/app.tar.xz")

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 application archive (app.tar.xz) from a personal Vercel deployment (vue-slwyts.vercel.app) that is not the official project domain (platinum.flysoftbeta.cn). This is a personal/unofficial host with no verifiable connection to the upstream project's release infrastructure. The archive is extracted and its contents (the 'app' directory) are installed directly into /opt/platinum and executed via an Electron wrapper. While md5sums are present, MD5 is cryptographically weak and the hash itself could be updated alongside a malicious payload. The duplicate source= assignment (first line is overridden by the second) is sloppy but not itself a security issue. The core concern is a prebuilt binary blob from an unofficial personal hosting service being installed and executed — a genuine supply-chain risk warranting medium severity.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: slwyts <a3144390867@163.com>
    
      2# Author: Flysoft <flysoftbeta@hiflysoft.onmicrosoft.com>
    
      3pkgname='platinum'
    
      4_pkgname='platinum'
    
      5pkgver=1.0.0
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7epoch=2
    
      8pkgdesc="Platinum Web Browser"
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10url="https://platinum.flysoftbeta.cn"
    
      11#license=('')
    
      12groups=()
    
      13depends=('electron' 'ffmpeg' 'aria2')
    
      14makedepends=('tar' 'xz')
    
      15checkdepends=()
    
      16optdepends=()
    
      17provides=()
    
      18conflicts=()
    
      19replaces=()
    
      20backup=()
    
      21options=()
    
      22install=
    
      23changelog=
    
      24source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz::https://vue-slwyts.vercel.app/app.tar.xz")
    
      25source=(platinum.png
    
      26        ${_pkgname}.desktop
    
      27        ${_pkgname}
    
      28        $pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz::https://vue-slwyts.vercel.app/app.tar.xz
    
      29        )
    
      30md5sums=('81583bb58c11dc83ec6f872afb21a2ec' 'e648f8ef35a7527d35c01091bad025b4' '1e371bf1065ff136689ee8d290da0c63' '9c21ae3b075500411fc8282a551eb56d')
    
      31validpgpkeys=()
    
      32
    
      33package() {
    
      34    install -Dm644 -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications" "${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      35    install -Dm644 "platinum.png" "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/0x0/apps/$_pkgname.png"
    
      36    install -Dm755 "${_pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/opt/platinum/${_pkgname}"
    
      37    cp -r "app" "${pkgdir}/opt/platinum/app"
    
      38    #cp -r "engine" "${pkgdir}/opt/platinum/engine"
    
      39    install -Dm755 "${_pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
    
      40}
    
      41

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