recollectr

MEDIUM

maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from recollectr.io (the official vendor site for this product), extracts and installs it. The main concerns are: (1) sha256sums='SKIP' for the AppImage means there is no integrity verification — any compromise of recollectr.io or a MITM attack would result in arbitrary code execution on the user's machine; (2) pkgver='latest' combined with a URL that always fetches the latest version means the package is not pinned to any specific release, making reproducibility impossible and silently pulling in whatever the server currently serves; (3) the AppImage is executed during the build phase (./${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage --appimage-extract) to extract its contents, meaning a malicious or tampered binary runs at build time. While recollectr.io appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site (not a personal/unofficial host), the combination of SKIP checksums, unpinned 'latest' version, and execution of a downloaded binary during packaging represents a genuine supply-chain risk. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

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=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://recollectr.io/download/linux/"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from recollectr.io (the official vendor site for this product), extracts and installs it. The main concerns are: (1) sha256sums='SKIP' for the AppImage means there is no integrity verification — any compromise of recollectr.io or a MITM attack would result in arbitrary code execution on the user's machine; (2) pkgver='latest' combined with a URL that always fetches the latest version means the package is not pinned to any specific release, making reproducibility impossible and silently pulling in whatever the server currently serves; (3) the AppImage is executed during the build phase (./${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage --appimage-extract) to extract its contents, meaning a malicious or tampered binary runs at build time. While recollectr.io appears to be the legitimate upstream vendor site (not a personal/unofficial host), the combination of SKIP checksums, unpinned 'latest' version, and execution of a downloaded binary during packaging represents a genuine supply-chain risk. This is a real medium-severity concern, not a false positive.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Dimitris Kiziridis <ragouel at outlook dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=recollectr
    
      4pkgver=latest
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Record and recall without breaking your flow"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url='https://recollectr.io'
    
      9license=("custom:${pkgname}")
    
      10makedepends=('gendesk')
    
      11noextract=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage")
    
      12source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage::https://recollectr.io/download/linux/"
    
      13        'LICENSE')
    
      14sha256sums=('SKIP'
    
      15            'SKIP')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18  install -Dm644 LICENSE -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      19  chmod 755 ./${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage
    
      20  ./${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage --appimage-extract
    
      21  install -Dm644 squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/recollectr.png "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/recollectr.png"
    
      22  gendesk -f -n --pkgname "${pkgname}" \
    
      23          --pkgdesc "$pkgdesc" \
    
      24          --name "Recollectr" \
    
      25          --comment "$pkgdesc" \
    
      26          --exec "${pkgname}" \
    
      27          --categories 'Utility;Office;Application' \
    
      28          --icon "${pkgname}"
    
      29  install -Dm644 "${pkgname}.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      30  install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      31  install -d "${pkgdir}/opt"
    
      32  cp -avR squashfs-root/ "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
    
      33  ln -s /opt/${pkgname}/AppRun "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/recollectr"
    
      34  find "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      35}

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