synology-assistant

maintainer zen · 45 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from Synology's official domain, extracts and installs it; while the host is not whitelisted, it is the legitimate vendor's download infrastructure, and the payload is a non-executable data extraction followed by symlinking, posing low risk.

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 downloads a prebuilt .deb from Synology's official domain, extracts and installs it; while the host is not whitelisted, it is the legitimate vendor's download infrastructure, and the payload is a non-executable data extraction followed by symlinking, posing low risk.

2 higher static findings superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=("https://global.download.synology.com/download/Utility/Assistant/${_pkgver}/Ubuntu/${arch}/synology-assistant_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")

MEDIUM Recently orphaned & re-adopted orphaned_readopted

This package was orphaned and re-adopted within the last 30 days — a window where ownership transfers can introduce malicious changes.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Helmut Stult <hst[at]e-mail[dot]de>
    
      2# Contributor: Pippo Peppo <abc@gmx.ch>
    
      3# Contributor: Lev Lybin <aur@devtrue.net>
    
      4# Contributor: Nick Østergaard <oe.nick at gmail dot com>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=synology-assistant
    
      7pkgver=7.0.7_50095
    
      8_pkgver=7.0.7-50095
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="It helps you set up and install DSM on your DiskStation"
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url="https://www.synology.com/en-global/releaseNote/Assistant"
    
      13license=('custom:Synology Linux License Grant')
    
      14depends=('glib2' 'glibc' 'qt5-base' 'libxkbcommon' 'libice' 'libsm')
    
      15conflicts=('synology-assistant')
    
      16provides=('synology-assistant')
    
      17install=${pkgname}.install
    
      18source=("https://global.download.synology.com/download/Utility/Assistant/${_pkgver}/Ubuntu/${arch}/synology-assistant_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      19sha256sums=('179b65691619a3c54bcf7dad9dd3af5474a8c337ebce7d0af3416dd13b85cfc6')
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      23    tar -zxf "${srcdir}/data.tar.gz"
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27    cp -rp opt "${pkgdir}/opt"
    
      28
    
      29    mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      30    ln -sf /opt/Synology/SynologyAssistant/SynologyAssistant "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      31
    
      32    install -Dm644 usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      33}
    
      34

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-17 00:18:29	LOW	3
2026-08-16 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-15 15:30:38	MEDIUM	2
2026-06-19 19:07:35	CLEAN	2
2026-06-19 18:54:17	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	MEDIUM	1