rootapp

MEDIUM

maintainer Iced-Coded 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary AppImage binary from installer.rootapp.com with SKIP'd checksums (no integrity verification), then installs and executes it. The concerns are: (1) SKIP checksums mean any MITM or server-side substitution goes undetected; (2) the AppImage is executed during package() to extract icons (--appimage-extract), meaning arbitrary code runs at build time; (3) installer.rootapp.com is the vendor's own installer subdomain, not a well-known mirror, and 'rootapp' is an obscure/unverified proprietary application. The validpgpkeys entry is present but never actually used to verify the downloaded AppImage (there is no sig source). This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unverified host with no checksum. Not clearly malicious, but a real medium-severity risk.

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_x86_64=("Root-x86_64.AppImage::https://installer.rootapp.com/installer/Linux/X64/Root.AppImage")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 78%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary AppImage binary from installer.rootapp.com with SKIP'd checksums (no integrity verification), then installs and executes it. The concerns are: (1) SKIP checksums mean any MITM or server-side substitution goes undetected; (2) the AppImage is executed during package() to extract icons (--appimage-extract), meaning arbitrary code runs at build time; (3) installer.rootapp.com is the vendor's own installer subdomain, not a well-known mirror, and 'rootapp' is an obscure/unverified proprietary application. The validpgpkeys entry is present but never actually used to verify the downloaded AppImage (there is no sig source). This is a genuine supply-chain concern: an executed binary from an unverified host with no checksum. Not clearly malicious, but a real medium-severity risk.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Iced-Coded <volkogon212@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=rootapp
    
      4pkgver=1.0.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Experimental build of Root app via AppImage"
    
      7arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      8url="https://www.rootapp.com"
    
      9license=('Proprietary')
    
      10depends=('fuse')
    
      11options=(!strip)
    
      12
    
      13source_x86_64=("Root-x86_64.AppImage::https://installer.rootapp.com/installer/Linux/X64/Root.AppImage")
    
      14source_aarch64=("Root-aarch64.AppImage::https://installer.rootapp.com/installer/Linux/Arm64/Root.AppImage")
    
      15
    
      16sha256sums_x86_64=('SKIP')
    
      17sha256sums_aarch64=('SKIP')
    
      18
    
      19validpgpkeys=('172B42B0ABB988FA22047C50B7165C356A3983D9')
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22    chmod +x "$srcdir/"*.AppImage
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25package() {
    
      26    install -Dm755 "$srcdir/"*.AppImage "$pkgdir/opt/$pkgname/$pkgname.AppImage"
    
      27
    
      28    install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      29    ln -s "/opt/$pkgname/$pkgname.AppImage" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname"
    
      30
    
      31    if command -v bsdtar >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    
      32        "$srcdir/"*.AppImage --appimage-extract > /dev/null 2>&1 || true
    
      33        find "$srcdir/squashfs-root" -type f -name '*.png' -exec install -Dm644 {} \
    
      34            "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/$pkgname.png" \; -quit
    
      35        rm -rf "$srcdir/squashfs-root"
    
      36    fi
    
      37
    
      38    install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/$pkgname.desktop" <<EOF
    
      39[Desktop Entry]
    
      40Name=Root
    
      41Exec=$pkgname
    
      42Icon=$pkgname
    
      43Type=Application
    
      44Categories=Network;
    
      45EOF
    
      46}
    
      47

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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
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