rofi-notion

MEDIUM

maintainer mathix 1 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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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
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2