reqview

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from an S3 bucket (s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/reqview-desktop-linux/) which is the vendor's own distribution channel for ReqView, a commercial requirements management tool. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks at the specific version. However, the source is a prebuilt Electron/native binary from an S3 bucket rather than an official distro repository or a GitHub release with verifiable provenance — the bucket owner could replace the file at any time for future pkgver bumps, and there is no GPG signature verification. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: executed native binary from a non-standard (though plausibly vendor-controlled) host, with integrity only guaranteed by a hardcoded checksum that must be manually updated per release. Not clearly malicious, but not clean either.

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:14 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/reqview-desktop-linux/ReqView-${pkgver}-linux-amd64.deb"

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 .deb from an S3 bucket (s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/reqview-desktop-linux/) which is the vendor's own distribution channel for ReqView, a commercial requirements management tool. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution attacks at the specific version. However, the source is a prebuilt Electron/native binary from an S3 bucket rather than an official distro repository or a GitHub release with verifiable provenance — the bucket owner could replace the file at any time for future pkgver bumps, and there is no GPG signature verification. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: executed native binary from a non-standard (though plausibly vendor-controlled) host, with integrity only guaranteed by a hardcoded checksum that must be manually updated per release. Not clearly malicious, but not clean either.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Mateusz Kiersnowski
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=reqview
    
      4pkgver=2.22.2
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A simple yet powerful requirements management tool in which you can easily capture structured requirements for a software or system product and track traceability to design, tests and risks of the developed product"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url='https://www.reqview.com'
    
      9license=("custom:${pkgname}")
    
      10depends=('gtk3'
    
      11         'libxss'
    
      12         'nss')
    
      13makedepends=('tar')
    
      14source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/reqview-desktop-linux/ReqView-${pkgver}-linux-amd64.deb"
    
      15        'LICENSE')
    
      16sha256sums=('9fb7da731db51ad3549c4fbeafd9e0d96e354b54a9b9e514c2a18818e42a986c'
    
      17            '169f93960253462efd8efd846f05a8d4755667023f4350f6ca09a8d008938b3e')
    
      18
    
      19package() {
    
      20  tar xvf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}/"
    
      21  install -Dm644 LICENSE -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      22}
    
      23

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