seadrive-cli

MEDIUM

maintainer sclu1034 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io, which is Exoscale's object storage (a Swiss cloud provider). Seafile does legitimately use Exoscale/Exo object storage for their downloads — this is a known pattern for Seafile's distribution infrastructure, not a random personal host. However, it is not the canonical seafile.com domain, and the AppImage is executed directly (installed as a runnable binary with a symlink in /usr/bin). The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution risk at download time, but the binary itself is opaque and unverifiable beyond the hash. The concern is real but mild: if Exoscale storage were compromised or the upstream maintainer's bucket were taken over, a malicious binary could be distributed. This is a genuine supply-chain concern for an executed binary from a non-primary domain, warranting medium severity, though it is likely a legitimate Seafile distribution channel rather than an attack.

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=("${_appimage}::https://sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io/seafile-downloads/${_appimage}")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt AppImage binary from sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io, which is Exoscale's object storage (a Swiss cloud provider). Seafile does legitimately use Exoscale/Exo object storage for their downloads — this is a known pattern for Seafile's distribution infrastructure, not a random personal host. However, it is not the canonical seafile.com domain, and the AppImage is executed directly (installed as a runnable binary with a symlink in /usr/bin). The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates substitution risk at download time, but the binary itself is opaque and unverifiable beyond the hash. The concern is real but mild: if Exoscale storage were compromised or the upstream maintainer's bucket were taken over, a malicious binary could be distributed. This is a genuine supply-chain concern for an executed binary from a non-primary domain, warranting medium severity, though it is likely a legitimate Seafile distribution channel rather than an attack.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Lucas Schwiderski <lucas@lschwiderski.de>
    
      2pkgname=seadrive-cli
    
      3pkgver=3.0.22
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="The Seafile Drive client enables you to access files on the server without syncing to local disk. It works like a network drive."
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://www.seafile.com/"
    
      8license=('Apache-2.0')
    
      9depends=('zlib' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'fuse2')
    
      10options=('!strip')
    
      11
    
      12_appimage="SeaDrive-cli-${CARCH}-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      13source_x86_64=("${_appimage}::https://sos-ch-dk-2.exo.io/seafile-downloads/${_appimage}")
    
      14sha256sums_x86_64=('3526468353ee6db29964bd8b8ad14d1d7cee68316faebc77158fc2d4c9fd57cf')
    
      15
    
      16prepare() {
    
      17    chmod +x "${_appimage}"
    
      18}
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      22    install -Dm755 "${_appimage}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage"
    
      23
    
      24    ln -s "/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      25    ln -s "/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname%-cli}"
    
      26}
    
      27

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