pomello

maintainer romelpinilla · 6 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Electron/Chromium binary .deb from pomelloapp.com (the official vendor site for this app) and installs it directly into /opt/Pomello. The URL uses a 'latest' redirect rather than a versioned/immutable URL, meaning the downloaded file could change without the md5sums catching it if the server swaps the binary — though the md5sums do provide some protection against silent substitution at review time. The host is the official vendor domain, not a personal/random host, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain risk. The core concern is a prebuilt closed-source Electron binary being executed directly from a vendor host with only MD5 (weak, collision-prone) checksums and no reproducibility. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: executed binary from a non-Arch-official source with weak integrity guarantees and a mutable 'latest' URL, even though the vendor domain appears legitimate.

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:12 source_i686=("Pomello-${pkgver}.deb::https://pomelloapp.com/download/linux/latest?dist=ubuntu&arch=32")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 75%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt Electron/Chromium binary .deb from pomelloapp.com (the official vendor site for this app) and installs it directly into /opt/Pomello. The URL uses a 'latest' redirect rather than a versioned/immutable URL, meaning the downloaded file could change without the md5sums catching it if the server swaps the binary — though the md5sums do provide some protection against silent substitution at review time. The host is the official vendor domain, not a personal/random host, which reduces but does not eliminate supply-chain risk. The core concern is a prebuilt closed-source Electron binary being executed directly from a vendor host with only MD5 (weak, collision-prone) checksums and no reproducibility. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: executed binary from a non-Arch-official source with weak integrity guarantees and a mutable 'latest' URL, even though the vendor domain appears legitimate.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Luigi Guevara <luigi.t.guevara@killua.me>
    
      2pkgname=pomello
    
      3pkgver=0.10.17
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Stay Focused. Accomplish more."
    
      6arch=('x86_64' 'i686')
    
      7url="https://pomelloapp.com/"
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9depends=('libsystemd')
    
      10makedepends=('tar' 'binutils')
    
      11install='pomello.install'
    
      12source_i686=("Pomello-${pkgver}.deb::https://pomelloapp.com/download/linux/latest?dist=ubuntu&arch=32")
    
      13source_x86_64=("Pomello-${pkgver}.deb::https://pomelloapp.com/download/linux/latest?dist=ubuntu")
    
      14options=(!strip)
    
      15md5sums_i686=('46f65da60c68c02c5dff9ffc4013b89b')
    
      16md5sums_x86_64=('3fef96f489aa9ca66cb06c1cc20440f8')
    
      17
    
      18prepare() {
    
      19  cd "$srcdir"
    
      20
    
      21  ar x "Pomello-${pkgver}.deb"
    
      22}
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  cd "$srcdir"
    
      26
    
      27  tar -C "$pkgdir" -xf data.tar.xz
    
      28
    
      29  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      30
    
      31  mkdir -p "$pkgdir/opt/Pomello/lib"
    
      32  ln -nsf /usr/lib/libudev.so.1 "$pkgdir/opt/Pomello/lib/libudev.so.0"
    
      33
    
      34  install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/Pomello/LICENSES.chromium.html" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSES.chromium.html"
    
      35  install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/Pomello/LICENSE.electron.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE.electron.txt"
    
      36
    
      37  ln -nsf "/opt/Pomello/pomello" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/pomello"
    
      38  RPM_BUILD_ROOT="$pkgdir" desktop-file-install "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/pomello.desktop"
    
      39  sed -e 's#/opt/Pomello/pomello#/usr/bin/pomello#' -i "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/pomello.desktop"
    
      40}
    
      41
    
      42# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      43

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