scholaread-cn-bin

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from a non-whitelisted, project-specific CDN; if the host were compromised or the download intercepted, an attacker could silently replace the executable with a malicious one, posing a supply-chain 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:17 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://cdn.scholaread.cn/assets/pc-releases/${pkgver}/cn/Scholaread-linux-amd64-${pkgver}.deb")

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 90%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb binary from a non-whitelisted, project-specific CDN; if the host were compromised or the download intercepted, an attacker could silently replace the executable with a malicious one, posing a supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: insmtr <insmtr@insmtr.cn>
    
      2# Contributor: SummerElement <Dapugongying@foxmail.com>
    
      3pkgname=scholaread-cn-bin
    
      4pkgver=1.1.75
    
      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=('c2f288709d93c1ad03c40d3b584c67d84abb32fc3503ce480e1ce3299ac5b0c0')
    
      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

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-18 00:14
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: insmtr <insmtr@insmtr.cn>
 # Contributor: SummerElement <Dapugongying@foxmail.com>
 pkgname=scholaread-cn-bin
-pkgver=1.1.67
+pkgver=1.1.75
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="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"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
             'util-linux-libs: UUID generation support'
             'libappindicator: system tray icon support')
 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://cdn.scholaread.cn/assets/pc-releases/${pkgver}/cn/Scholaread-linux-amd64-${pkgver}.deb")
-sha256sums=('6552545d7b2f689f226ff32065b7574411c1b6ae418a8b8ef162a08c9fc0e485')
+sha256sums=('c2f288709d93c1ad03c40d3b584c67d84abb32fc3503ce480e1ce3299ac5b0c0')
 
 package() {
     # unzip DEB

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 05:56:57	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2