teamwork-desktop

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt binary archive (NSIS 7z) from an AWS S3 bucket (tw-open.s3.amazonaws.com) that belongs to Teamwork's own infrastructure — this is the vendor's official release channel as indicated by the latest.yml release manifest on the same bucket. The sha256sums are pinned, which mitigates substitution risk significantly. The PKGBUILD extracts the ASAR (JavaScript app bundle), applies patches to remove auto-update and fix the titlebar, repacks it, and runs it under the system electron26. No arbitrary binary execution occurs during build; the runtime is the system electron. The main concern is that the S3 bucket is controlled by a third party (Teamwork) rather than a canonical package mirror, and the archive contains prebuilt Electron app code. However, this is the vendor's own distribution channel with a pinned hash, which is standard practice for proprietary Electron apps in the AUR. The risk is real but typical for this class of package — not elevated beyond the normal medium for prebuilt vendor binaries from a non-distro host.

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 "$pkgname-$pkgver.7z::https://tw-open.s3.amazonaws.com/projects/electron/releases/teamwork-projects-desktop-$pkgver-x64.nsis.7z"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 72%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary archive (NSIS 7z) from an AWS S3 bucket (tw-open.s3.amazonaws.com) that belongs to Teamwork's own infrastructure — this is the vendor's official release channel as indicated by the latest.yml release manifest on the same bucket. The sha256sums are pinned, which mitigates substitution risk significantly. The PKGBUILD extracts the ASAR (JavaScript app bundle), applies patches to remove auto-update and fix the titlebar, repacks it, and runs it under the system electron26. No arbitrary binary execution occurs during build; the runtime is the system electron. The main concern is that the S3 bucket is controlled by a third party (Teamwork) rather than a canonical package mirror, and the archive contains prebuilt Electron app code. However, this is the vendor's own distribution channel with a pinned hash, which is standard practice for proprietary Electron apps in the AUR. The risk is real but typical for this class of package — not elevated beyond the normal medium for prebuilt vendor binaries from a non-distro host.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: nezu <nezu@nezu.cc>
    
      2pkgname=teamwork-desktop
    
      3pkgver=1.3.2
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Teamwork for Desktop - Launch Teamwork directly from your desktop."
    
      6arch=('any')
    
      7url="https://integrations.teamwork.com/integrations/teamwork-projects-desktop/"
    
      8license=('unknown')
    
      9depends=(electron26)
    
      10makedepends=(asar)
    
      11source=(
    
      12	# latest release can be found here: https://tw-open.s3.amazonaws.com/projects/electron/releases/latest.yml
    
      13	"$pkgname-$pkgver.7z::https://tw-open.s3.amazonaws.com/projects/electron/releases/teamwork-projects-desktop-$pkgver-x64.nsis.7z"
    
      14	"fix-titlebar.patch"
    
      15	"remove-auto-update.patch"
    
      16	"teamwork-desktop.desktop"
    
      17	"teamwork-desktop.sh")
    
      18sha256sums=('fae7d87686c7a40c0588914b9350bb4dd6f2d778341a3ef78079f3b2ee302285'
    
      19            'e0c69e7a9d26d4afe1389a0348e34d84affa6783b0f64b4a6c9752041e8d0595'
    
      20            '57071e5305fe9b973b8d48e90e827a9323f3f0b5b15f3ba5ecb4e57e03b1cc8f'
    
      21            'abd0bf317ac70d5aa51516508cdcf09875496b8bfde643af52df98f0e58d0b93'
    
      22            '241c4bdb71974742a4204f0d1cd0c58b007cb459961e278dbd77f3e4ea0c54f5')
    
      23
    
      24prepare() {
    
      25	cd resources
    
      26	asar extract app.asar app
    
      27	patch --directory="app" --forward --strip=1 --input="${srcdir}/remove-auto-update.patch"
    
      28	patch --directory="app" --forward --strip=1 --input="${srcdir}/fix-titlebar.patch"
    
      29}
    
      30
    
      31build() {
    
      32	cd resources
    
      33	asar pack app patched-app.asar
    
      34}
    
      35
    
      36package() {
    
      37	install -Dm644 resources/patched-app.asar "$pkgdir/usr/lib/$pkgname/resources/app.asar"
    
      38	install -Dm755 "$pkgname.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname"
    
      39	install -Dm644 "$pkgname.desktop" -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/"
    
      40	install -Dm644 resources/app/src/renderer/images/logo.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/$pkgname.png"
    
      41}
    
      42

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