postman-bin-zh

maintainer keke · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged dl.pstmn.io is Postman's legitimate official download domain, so that part is fine. The real concern is the second source: app.zip from github.com/hlmd/Postman-cn replaces the entire Postman app resources directory (rm -rf Postman/app/resources/app/ followed by cp -r app Postman/app/resources/). Postman is an Electron application, so app/resources/app/ contains JavaScript/Node.js code that executes with full Electron privileges. Substituting this with modified files from a third-party personal GitHub repository is a genuine supply-chain risk — the replacement code could contain anything, and users would be running unreviewed JS from an unofficial source inside a privileged Electron context. This is a real medium-severity concern: executed interpreted code from an unofficial host replaces official application code.

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:11 "Postman-linux-x64-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://dl.pstmn.io/download/version/${pkgver}/linux64"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): dl.pstmn.io is Postman's legitimate official download domain, so that part is fine. The real concern is the second source: app.zip from github.com/hlmd/Postman-cn replaces the entire Postman app resources directory (rm -rf Postman/app/resources/app/ followed by cp -r app Postman/app/resources/). Postman is an Electron application, so app/resources/app/ contains JavaScript/Node.js code that executes with full Electron privileges. Substituting this with modified files from a third-party personal GitHub repository is a genuine supply-chain risk — the replacement code could contain anything, and users would be running unreviewed JS from an unofficial source inside a privileged Electron context. This is a real medium-severity concern: executed interpreted code from an unofficial host replaces official application code.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: kekeimiku <kekelanact@gmail.com>
    
      2pkgname=postman-bin-zh
    
      3pkgver=9.12.2
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Build, test, and document your APIs faster"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://www.getpostman.com"
    
      8options=(!strip)
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10source=(
    
      11	"Postman-linux-x64-${pkgver}.tar.gz::https://dl.pstmn.io/download/version/${pkgver}/linux64"
    
      12	"app.zip::https://github.com/hlmd/Postman-cn/releases/download/${pkgver}/app.zip"
    
      13	"postman.desktop"
    
      14)
    
      15depends=(libxss nss gtk3)
    
      16sha256sums=('7ad1df7c736a135756656801b62d7c40055c8b030f51729de0eeb8d9cf0c6b08'
    
      17	    'bb6e561a40b94bbef75ae5835a0b184847c4ead7f74e2fe5f12df810f7440496'
    
      18            '74b2d8570658e207e31f729e7f4768952252383aee7c695218d077bd0ef13245')
    
      19package() {
    
      20	rm -rf Postman/app/resources/app/
    
      21	cp -r app Postman/app/resources/
    
      22	install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/opt/"
    
      23	chmod -R 755 "Postman"
    
      24	cp -r "Postman" "${pkgdir}/opt/postman"
    
      25	chmod -R 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/postman"
    
      26  	install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      27    ln -s "/opt/postman/Postman" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/postman"
    
      28    # License
    
      29    # install -D -m644 "Postman/app/LICENSE" \
    
      30    #   "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      31    # Chromium License
    
      32    # install -D -m644 "Postman/app/LICENSES.chromium.html" \
    
      33    #   "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSES.chromium.html"
    
      34    # Desktop file
    
      35    install -D -m644 "postman.desktop" \
    
      36        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/postman.desktop"
    
      37    # Icon
    
      38    install -d -m755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps"
    
      39    ln -s "/opt/postman/app/resources/app/assets/icon.png" \
    
      40        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/postman.png"
    
      41}
    
      42

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2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
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