rock.so

maintainer pacmanUser · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads and installs a prebuilt AppImage binary from desktop.rock.so, which is the vendor's own subdomain for distributing the Rock desktop client. This is a legitimate product (rock.so is a real productivity/messaging app), and the source host appears to be the official distribution endpoint. However, the binary is a closed-source, prebuilt executable from a non-GitHub/non-standard host with no way to verify it against an independent source. The sha512sums are present and pin the specific binary, which mitigates opportunistic substitution but not a targeted swap at the source. The PKGBUILD also executes the AppImage during build (--appimage-extract) to extract an icon, which means the AppImage runs at package build time. This is a real supply-chain concern: a compromised or malicious AppImage from this host would execute code on the builder's machine. The risk is real but not evidence of active malice — this is a standard pattern for AppImage-based AUR packages, but the non-standard host and closed-source binary warrant a medium rating.

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 https://desktop.rock.so/Rock-${pkgver}.AppImage

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads and installs a prebuilt AppImage binary from desktop.rock.so, which is the vendor's own subdomain for distributing the Rock desktop client. This is a legitimate product (rock.so is a real productivity/messaging app), and the source host appears to be the official distribution endpoint. However, the binary is a closed-source, prebuilt executable from a non-GitHub/non-standard host with no way to verify it against an independent source. The sha512sums are present and pin the specific binary, which mitigates opportunistic substitution but not a targeted swap at the source. The PKGBUILD also executes the AppImage during build (--appimage-extract) to extract an icon, which means the AppImage runs at package build time. This is a real supply-chain concern: a compromised or malicious AppImage from this host would execute code on the builder's machine. The risk is real but not evidence of active malice — this is a standard pattern for AppImage-based AUR packages, but the non-standard host and closed-source binary warrant a medium rating.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Aditya Mishra <pegvinaditya@proton.me>
    
      2pkgname=rock.so
    
      3pkgver=1.2.1
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc="All In One Messaging - Manage Tasks, Files & Notes"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://rock.so/"
    
      8license=('Unlicensed') # Extract The AppImage & Check the package.json file in resources/app/
    
      9provides=('rock.so')
    
      10conflicts=('rock.so')
    
      11depends=('fuse2')
    
      12options=(!strip) # necessary otherwise the AppImage file in the package is truncated
    
      13source=(
    
      14  https://desktop.rock.so/Rock-${pkgver}.AppImage
    
      15  rock_custom.desktop
    
      16)
    
      17sha512sums=(
    
      18  3f2d7893d8659174956fcd3d06960e6256e0ef394a800c32db0f71c84a778d12ed2b6da263e65a2b53374d5347415e42d094924958048ca6427248b4ffd142a3
    
      19  bae726112288220973d56e16edf738eaaf6dc212da0b3008dae4dd8d2919bd2bab63f80bbd451fd8ffa31c48af8977d307a4f266f95780f5402bd9d718d9b1a5
    
      20)
    
      21
    
      22_filename="Rock-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  chmod +x ${_filename}
    
      26  ./${_filename} --appimage-extract
    
      27
    
      28  install -Dm644 "./squashfs-root/rock.png" "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/rock_so.png"
    
      29  install -Dm644 "./rock_custom.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/rock_so.desktop"
    
      30  install -Dm755 ${_filename} "$pkgdir/usr/bin/rock_so"
    
      31
    
      32  rm -rf ./squashfs-root
    
      33}
    
      34

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