rofi-notion

MEDIUM

maintainer mathix 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD creates a Python venv and runs `pip install pyinstaller` (pulling from PyPI without any version pin or hash verification), then `pip install .` (the package itself), and uses PyInstaller to bundle everything into a single binary that gets installed to /usr/bin. The concerns are: (1) pyinstaller is fetched from PyPI at whatever the latest version is — no version constraint, no integrity check — creating a supply-chain risk from an external, unverified source during build; (2) the resulting installed artifact is a PyInstaller-bundled binary, which is an unusual and opaque form for an Arch package; (3) sha256sums is 'SKIP', so the upstream source tarball itself is not verified. While PyPI is a legitimate ecosystem mirror, pulling an unconstrained, unverified build tool from it during the build process is a genuine (if not clearly malicious) supply-chain concern — a compromised or typosquatted pyinstaller on PyPI would result in arbitrary code execution during build and a trojanized installed binary. This matches the MEDIUM classification.

Triggered rules

Medium pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

PKGBUILD:19 pip install pyinstaller

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 80%): The PKGBUILD creates a Python venv and runs `pip install pyinstaller` (pulling from PyPI without any version pin or hash verification), then `pip install .` (the package itself), and uses PyInstaller to bundle everything into a single binary that gets installed to /usr/bin. The concerns are: (1) pyinstaller is fetched from PyPI at whatever the latest version is — no version constraint, no integrity check — creating a supply-chain risk from an external, unverified source during build; (2) the resulting installed artifact is a PyInstaller-bundled binary, which is an unusual and opaque form for an Arch package; (3) sha256sums is 'SKIP', so the upstream source tarball itself is not verified. While PyPI is a legitimate ecosystem mirror, pulling an unconstrained, unverified build tool from it during the build process is a genuine (if not clearly malicious) supply-chain concern — a compromised or typosquatted pyinstaller on PyPI would result in arbitrary code execution during build and a trojanized installed binary. This matches the MEDIUM classification.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Arnaud Gissinger <agissing@student.42.fr>
    
      2pkgname=rofi-notion
    
      3pkgver=2.1.2
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Quickly create new Notion pages for your databases with rofi as GUI."
    
      6arch=('any')
    
      7url="https://github.com/mathix420/rofi-notion"
    
      8license=('MIT')
    
      9makedepends=('python>=3.9' 'python-setuptools')
    
      10provides=('rofi-notion')
    
      11source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/mathix420/rofi-notion/archive/refs/tags/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
    
      12sha256sums=('SKIP')
    
      13
    
      14build() {
    
      15	cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      16	rm .python-version
    
      17	python -m venv "$pkgname-$pkgver-aur"
    
      18	source $pkgname-$pkgver-aur/bin/activate
    
      19	pip install pyinstaller
    
      20	pip install .
    
      21	pyinstaller stub.py --onefile --clean -n ${pkgname}
    
      22	deactivate
    
      23	rm -r "$pkgname-$pkgver-aur"
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27	cd "$pkgname-$pkgver"
    
      28	install -Dm755 "./dist/${pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      29}
    
      30

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