tmetric-rpm

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt RPM binary from static.tmetric.com (the official TMetric vendor CDN) and installs it directly. While static.tmetric.com appears to be the legitimate vendor distribution host for TMetric desktop, it is not a standard distro mirror or well-known ecosystem registry. The RPM is an executed binary artifact installed system-wide. The md5sum provides weak integrity (MD5 is broken for collision resistance), and the URL uses $CARCH without quoting which could be a minor issue. The main concern is that a prebuilt binary from a vendor CDN is being installed without signature verification beyond a weak MD5 checksum — if the CDN were compromised or the binary swapped, it would execute arbitrary code. This is a genuine supply-chain concern (unverified prebuilt binary from a non-standard host) but not clearly malicious, consistent with MEDIUM severity.

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:23 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.$arch.rpm::https://static.tmetric.com/desktop/download/linux/rpm/$CARCH")

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 RPM binary from static.tmetric.com (the official TMetric vendor CDN) and installs it directly. While static.tmetric.com appears to be the legitimate vendor distribution host for TMetric desktop, it is not a standard distro mirror or well-known ecosystem registry. The RPM is an executed binary artifact installed system-wide. The md5sum provides weak integrity (MD5 is broken for collision resistance), and the URL uses $CARCH without quoting which could be a minor issue. The main concern is that a prebuilt binary from a vendor CDN is being installed without signature verification beyond a weak MD5 checksum — if the CDN were compromised or the binary swapped, it would execute arbitrary code. This is a genuine supply-chain concern (unverified prebuilt binary from a non-standard host) but not clearly malicious, consistent with MEDIUM severity.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Rohit Goswami (HaoZeke) <rohit.goswami@aol.com>
    
      2pkgname=tmetric-rpm
    
      3pkgver="20.2.4"
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5epoch=
    
      6pkgdesc="TMetric is a simple and accurate work time-tracker that sets you free from tedious time reporting. Built from the rpm to prevent breakage."
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://tmetric.com"
    
      9license=('GPL2')
    
      10groups=()
    
      11depends=()
    
      12provides=('tmetric')
    
      13conflicts=('tmetric''tmetric-desktop')
    
      14options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      15makedepends=()
    
      16checkdepends=()
    
      17optdepends=()
    
      18replaces=()
    
      19backup=()
    
      20options=()
    
      21install=
    
      22changelog=
    
      23source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.$arch.rpm::https://static.tmetric.com/desktop/download/linux/rpm/$CARCH")
    
      24md5sums=('4736678e8d592394e0f66e33120709a2')
    
      25noextract=()                             
    
      26
    
      27package() {
    
      28  # cd "$srcdir/"
    
      29  cp -rf usr ${pkgdir}
    
      30  # make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
    
      31}
    
      32
    
      33# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      34

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