puro-bin

maintainer pwrshi · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from puro.dev, which is the official project domain for the puro Flutter version manager (GitHub: github.com/pingbird/puro). The domain is controlled by the upstream author (pingbird), so it is not a random personal host, but it is also not a standard forge release artifact (e.g., GitHub Releases). The binary is executed directly and installed to /usr/bin/puro. There is a sha256sum provided, which mitigates substitution attacks at the point of download, but does not protect against the upstream author pushing a malicious binary at the same URL/version. The core concern is that puro.dev is a custom CDN/build server rather than a transparent release system like GitHub Releases where artifacts are immutably tied to a tagged commit. This is a real, if modest, supply-chain concern: a prebuilt binary from a custom host with no reproducibility guarantee. This pattern is standard for -bin AUR packages but the non-GitHub-Releases origin keeps it at medium rather than clean.

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:7 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver::https://puro.dev/builds/$pkgver/linux-x64/puro")
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary from puro.dev, which is the official project domain for the puro Flutter version manager (GitHub: github.com/pingbird/puro). The domain is controlled by the upstream author (pingbird), so it is not a random personal host, but it is also not a standard forge release artifact (e.g., GitHub Releases). The binary is executed directly and installed to /usr/bin/puro. There is a sha256sum provided, which mitigates substitution attacks at the point of download, but does not protect against the upstream author pushing a malicious binary at the same URL/version. The core concern is that puro.dev is a custom CDN/build server rather than a transparent release system like GitHub Releases where artifacts are immutably tied to a tagged commit. This is a real, if modest, supply-chain concern: a prebuilt binary from a custom host with no reproducibility guarantee. This pattern is standard for -bin AUR packages but the non-GitHub-Releases origin keeps it at medium rather than clean.

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Stanislav Berezhnoy <me@pwrshi.ru>
2pkgname=puro-bin
3pkgver=1.4.11
4pkgrel=1
5pkgdesc='A powerful tool for installing and upgrading Flutter versions.'
6url='https://github.com/pingbird/puro'
7source=("$pkgname-$pkgver::https://puro.dev/builds/$pkgver/linux-x64/puro")
8arch=('x86_64')
9options=('!strip' '!debug')
10license=('GPL-3.0-or-later')
11depends=('git')
12conflicts=('puro')
13provides=('puro')
14sha256sums=('be0e79875f30e2c9f48db20adb5443e02ec78068885c30f1a698513205b2668a')
15
16package() {
17 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/puro-bin-$pkgver" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/puro"
18}
19

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