scholaread-cn-bin

LOW
maintainer insmtr 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785
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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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

1 offending line(s) highlighted
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)SeverityRules
2026-11-01 00:21:48 Low 2
2026-10-31 00:07:41 Low 2
2026-10-30 00:29:30 Low 2
2026-10-29 00:13:55 Low 2
2026-10-28 00:06:54 Low 2
2026-10-27 00:23:28 Low 2
2026-10-26 00:12:40 Low 2
2026-10-25 00:20:48 Low 2
2026-10-24 00:14:55 Low 2
2026-10-23 00:02:19 Low 2
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2026-10-19 00:03:55 Low 2
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2026-10-17 00:21:55 Low 2
2026-10-16 00:12:47 Low 2
2026-10-15 00:28:05 Low 2
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2026-10-13 00:23:45 Low 2

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