spideroak-one

MEDIUM
maintainer warnem2 262 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from an S3 bucket (spideroak-releases.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com). SpiderOak is a real commercial product and this S3 bucket is plausibly their official release host, but it is not a canonical vendor website URL (like spideroak.com/downloads) — it's an S3 bucket that could in principle be misconfigured or substituted. The package installs an unverified prebuilt binary directly into the system. There is a sha256sum check, which mitigates substitution attacks at download time, but does not verify the binary's provenance or signing. The binary is executed code from a non-canonical host. This is a real but low-probability supply-chain concern: medium severity is appropriate. No piracy or broken flags apply.

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:20 source=("https://spideroak-releases.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/spideroakone_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
Medium AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed it and judged it MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary .deb from an S3 bucket (spideroak-releases.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com). SpiderOak is a real commercial product and this S3 bucket is plausibly their official release host, but it is not a canonical vendor website URL (like spideroak.com/downloads) — it's an S3 bucket that could in principle be misconfigured or substituted. The package installs an unverified prebuilt binary directly into the system. There is a sha256sum check, which mitigates substitution attacks at download time, but does not verify the binary's provenance or signing. The binary is executed code from a non-canonical host. This is a real but low-probability supply-chain concern: medium severity is appropriate. No piracy or broken flags apply.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Edmund Lodewijks < e dot lodewijks at gmail . com>
2# Contributor: Matthew Brian Cohen <cohen at matthewbriancohen dot com>
3# Contributor: Matt Warner <mattwarner001@gmail.com>
4# Contributor: Alessio Sergi <asergi at archlinux dot us>
5# Contributor: Limao Luo <luolimao@gmail.com>
6
7pkgname=spideroak-one
8_pkgname='SpiderOak One'
9pkgver=7.5.2
10pkgrel=1
11pkgdesc="Secure file backup, sync and sharing client. SpiderOak One client."
12arch=('x86_64')
13url="https://crossclave.com/"
14license=('LicenseRef-SpiderOakONE')
15depends=('glibc' 'curl')
16makedepends=()
17provides=('spideroak')
18options=('!strip')
19install="${pkgname}".install
20source=("https://spideroak-releases.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/spideroakone_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
21 'LICENSE')
22sha256sums=('2c012c296b23d6281c215a7dedc6702d858507793d44a047afc5907853aacc35'
23 '62271420e251febb88cec99de1559002237ab980c2912e091d2f0d1b8bec7141')
24
25package() {
26tar -Jxf "${srcdir}"/data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir"/
27
28# We don't need APT files, nor menu files, and Arch Linux sets a higher
29# `fs.inotify.max_user_watches` than what this configuration provides.
30rm -r "$pkgdir"/etc/
31
32install -Dm644 "$srcdir"/LICENSE "$pkgdir"/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
33}
34

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-09-17 00:27:14 Medium 2
2026-09-16 00:03:17 Medium 2
2026-09-15 00:25:31 Medium 2
2026-09-14 00:27:57 Medium 2
2026-09-13 00:19:54 Medium 2
2026-09-12 00:25:17 Medium 2
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2026-09-01 00:11:19 Medium 2
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