remotemouse

maintainer emmavecellio · 8 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (RemoteMouse) from remotemouse.net, the official vendor website for the Remote Mouse application. This is the legitimate upstream source for this proprietary closed-source application. However, the concern is real: a prebuilt executable from a proprietary vendor is installed directly to /opt and executed, with no source build. The vendor host (remotemouse.net) is the official site, so this is not an unofficial/personal host — it is the canonical distribution point for this software. The md5sums provide minimal integrity checking (MD5 is weak but present). The main risk is the typical supply-chain concern of any prebuilt proprietary binary: if the vendor's server is compromised or the binary is malicious, it executes with user privileges. This is a standard medium-risk pattern for AUR packages distributing prebuilt proprietary binaries from official vendor sites — not a false positive, but also not an active attack. The cheaper model's assessment is essentially correct in classification, though the framing slightly overstates the concern by calling it 'non-standard' when it is actually the official vendor host.

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:13 source=("https://www.remotemouse.net/downloads/linux/RemoteMouse_x86_64.zip"
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 (RemoteMouse) from remotemouse.net, the official vendor website for the Remote Mouse application. This is the legitimate upstream source for this proprietary closed-source application. However, the concern is real: a prebuilt executable from a proprietary vendor is installed directly to /opt and executed, with no source build. The vendor host (remotemouse.net) is the official site, so this is not an unofficial/personal host — it is the canonical distribution point for this software. The md5sums provide minimal integrity checking (MD5 is weak but present). The main risk is the typical supply-chain concern of any prebuilt proprietary binary: if the vendor's server is compromised or the binary is malicious, it executes with user privileges. This is a standard medium-risk pattern for AUR packages distributing prebuilt proprietary binaries from official vendor sites — not a false positive, but also not an active attack. The cheaper model's assessment is essentially correct in classification, though the framing slightly overstates the concern by calling it 'non-standard' when it is actually the official vendor host.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: warpigglets
2# Contributor: Daniel Bertalan <dani@danielbertalan.dev>
3# Contributor: Hugo Osvaldo Barrera <hugo@barrera.io>
4
5pkgname=remotemouse
6pkgver=1
7pkgrel=5
8pkgdesc="Turn your mobile phone or tablet into a set of wireless mouse and keyboard."
9arch=("any")
10url="https://remotemouse.net/"
11license=('Unknown')
12options=('!strip')
13source=("https://www.remotemouse.net/downloads/linux/RemoteMouse_x86_64.zip"
14 "remotemouse.sh"
15 "RemoteMouse.desktop")
16md5sums=('05d4ae6d0e5117a2d885c21d8f19f285'
17 '4713068dacd034226b9b0c6be1e39aef'
18 '45ff986a05bdeacda1da57b19d3b027c')
19
20package() {
21 cd "$srcdir"
22
23 install -Dm 755 RemoteMouse "$pkgdir/opt/remotemouse/RemoteMouse"
24 cp -r lib "$pkgdir/opt/remotemouse"
25 cp -r images "$pkgdir/opt/remotemouse"
26 install -Dm 644 RemoteMouse.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/RemoteMouse.desktop"
27 install -Dm 755 remotemouse.sh "$pkgdir/usr/bin/remotemouse"
28}
29

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