scholaread-cn-bin

LOW

maintainer insmtr 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package installs a prebuilt .deb from the project's own CDN, which is a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised, but it is not actively malicious; the source is plausibly official and the installed files are data/binary assets of the legitimate application.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package installs a prebuilt .deb from the project's own CDN, which is a supply-chain risk if the host were compromised, but it is not actively malicious; the source is plausibly official and the installed files are data/binary assets of the legitimate application.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

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:17 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://cdn.scholaread.cn/assets/pc-releases/${pkgver}/cn/Scholaread-linux-amd64-${pkgver}.deb")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: insmtr <insmtr@insmtr.cn>
    
      2# Contributor: SummerElement <Dapugongying@foxmail.com>
    
      3pkgname=scholaread-cn-bin
    
      4pkgver=1.1.80
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Scholaread（靠岸学术）集论文PDF阅读、论文翻译、AI问答解析、文献多设备管理于一体"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://scholaread.cn"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10depends=('gtk3' 'nss' 'libxss' 'libxtst')
    
      11optdepends=('libnotify: desktop notifications support'
    
      12            'xdg-utils: open URLs in browser'
    
      13            'libsecret: password storage support'
    
      14            'at-spi2-core: accessibility support'
    
      15            'util-linux-libs: UUID generation support'
    
      16            'libappindicator: system tray icon support')
    
      17source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://cdn.scholaread.cn/assets/pc-releases/${pkgver}/cn/Scholaread-linux-amd64-${pkgver}.deb")
    
      18sha256sums=('f2fe1561f99de3e3c8de3e5089fa2aa7b57c822c6f281ad4abbc462083684123')
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21    # unzip DEB
    
      22    ar x "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb"
    
      23    tar -xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      24
    
      25    # fix file permission
    
      26    chmod +x "${pkgdir}/opt/Scholaread/scholaread"
    
      27    chmod 4755 "${pkgdir}/opt/Scholaread/chrome-sandbox"
    
      28
    
      29    # setup license
    
      30    install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/Scholaread/LICENSE.electron.txt" \
    
      31        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      32}
    
      33
    
      34post_install() {
    
      35    # update icon cache
    
      36    update-desktop-database
    
      37    gtk-update-icon-cache -qt /usr/share/icons/hicolor
    
      38}
    
      39
    
      40post_upgrade() {
    
      41    post_install
    
      42}
    
      43
    
      44post_remove() {
    
      45    post_install
    
      46}
    
      47

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2