pluto-photos-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer Plutophotos 0 votes scanned 2026-08-19 03:41:13.749572

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's own domain, which is not on the whitelist but plausibly official; however, since it's an unverifiable binary executable with a fixed checksum, the worst case of a malicious swap would be arbitrary code execution, 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:15 source=("${_appimage}::https://plutophotos.com/downloads/${_appimage}"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's own domain, which is not on the whitelist but plausibly official; however, since it's an unverifiable binary executable with a fixed checksum, the worst case of a malicious swap would be arbitrary code execution, warranting medium severity.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Plutophotos <support at plutophotos dot com>
    
      2pkgname=pluto-photos-bin
    
      3pkgver=2.4.10
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc='Desktop photo library manager with face detection, smart albums, map view, and cloud import'
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url='https://plutophotos.com'
    
      8license=('LicenseRef-Proprietary')
    
      9depends=('gtk3' 'nss' 'alsa-lib' 'libxss')
    
      10optdepends=('libappindicator-gtk3: tray icon support')
    
      11provides=('pluto-photos')
    
      12conflicts=('pluto-photos')
    
      13options=(!strip !debug)
    
      14_appimage="pluto-photos-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      15source=("${_appimage}::https://plutophotos.com/downloads/${_appimage}"
    
      16        'pluto-photos.desktop')
    
      17sha256sums=('bb6a61864afd4d5c194a9f7f96def09cfa058207ced9b100b7ab1eb9cee127a8'
    
      18            '39dbd52edef2592f66dfb7fbbf471b62f547457288565e23759584f74606b46b')
    
      19noextract=("${_appimage}")
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22    chmod +x "${srcdir}/${_appimage}"
    
      23    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      24    ./"${_appimage}" --appimage-extract
    
      25}
    
      26
    
      27package() {
    
      28    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      29
    
      30    # Install app to /opt
    
      31    install -d "${pkgdir}/opt/pluto-photos"
    
      32    cp -r squashfs-root/* "${pkgdir}/opt/pluto-photos/"
    
      33
    
      34    # Fix permissions
    
      35    find "${pkgdir}/opt/pluto-photos" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      36    find "${pkgdir}/opt/pluto-photos" -type f -exec chmod 644 {} +
    
      37    chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/pluto-photos/pluto-photos"
    
      38    chmod 4755 "${pkgdir}/opt/pluto-photos/chrome-sandbox"
    
      39
    
      40    # Make shared libraries executable
    
      41    find "${pkgdir}/opt/pluto-photos" -name '*.so*' -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      42
    
      43    # Launcher symlink
    
      44    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      45    ln -sf /opt/pluto-photos/pluto-photos "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/pluto-photos"
    
      46
    
      47    # Desktop entry
    
      48    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/pluto-photos.desktop" \
    
      49        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/pluto-photos.desktop"
    
      50
    
      51    # Icons from extracted AppImage
    
      52    for size in 16 32 48 64 128 256 512 1024; do
    
      53        _icon="squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/pluto-photos.png"
    
      54        if [ -f "${_icon}" ]; then
    
      55            install -Dm644 "${_icon}" \
    
      56                "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}x${size}/apps/pluto-photos.png"
    
      57        fi
    
      58    done
    
      59}
    
      60

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-20 16:03
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-19 03:41
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Plutophotos <support at plutophotos dot com>
 pkgname=pluto-photos-bin
-pkgver=2.3.35
+pkgver=2.4.10
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='Desktop photo library manager with face detection, smart albums, map view, and cloud import'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 _appimage="pluto-photos-${pkgver}.AppImage"
 source=("${_appimage}::https://plutophotos.com/downloads/${_appimage}"
         'pluto-photos.desktop')
-sha256sums=('aade747c4d6fd5509ca926efb3ffb88cf37656bf7d20cbcbe2da171f3906dcf6'
+sha256sums=('bb6a61864afd4d5c194a9f7f96def09cfa058207ced9b100b7ab1eb9cee127a8'
             '39dbd52edef2592f66dfb7fbbf471b62f547457288565e23759584f74606b46b')
 noextract=("${_appimage}")
 

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-19 03:41:13	Medium	2
2026-06-20 16:03:41	Clean	2
2026-06-20 00:50:07	Medium	2
2026-06-20 00:18:46	Medium	2
2026-06-19 23:51:18	Medium	2
2026-06-19 19:07:35	Low	2
2026-06-18 18:55:24	Clean	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	Medium	1