toolkit

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (.pkg.tar.xz) from software.concise.cc, which is a personal/unofficial host controlled by the maintainer. The package installs executables directly from this binary tarball via 'install -Dm755 usr/bin/*'. While there is a sha512sum and a PGP key listed (validpgpkeys), the trust anchor is entirely the maintainer's own infrastructure and signing key — there is no upstream vendor release host or official mirror involved. If the host or key is compromised, arbitrary binaries would be installed. This is a textbook supply-chain risk: executed binaries from a personal host with self-signed verification. The sha512sum provides some integrity guarantee but not authenticity beyond trusting the same party who controls the host. This warrants a MEDIUM rating.

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:14 "https://software.concise.cc/x86_64/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.xz"

MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 85%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (.pkg.tar.xz) from software.concise.cc, which is a personal/unofficial host controlled by the maintainer. The package installs executables directly from this binary tarball via 'install -Dm755 usr/bin/*'. While there is a sha512sum and a PGP key listed (validpgpkeys), the trust anchor is entirely the maintainer's own infrastructure and signing key — there is no upstream vendor release host or official mirror involved. If the host or key is compromised, arbitrary binaries would be installed. This is a textbook supply-chain risk: executed binaries from a personal host with self-signed verification. The sha512sum provides some integrity guarantee but not authenticity beyond trusting the same party who controls the host. This warrants a MEDIUM rating.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Connor Etherington <connor@concise.cc>
    
      2# ---
    
      3pkgname=toolkit
    
      4pkgver=0.1.1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="A toolbox for the CLI, rapidly speeding up file editing and data management processes."
    
      7arch=(any)
    
      8url="https://gitlab.com/a4to/${pkgname}"
    
      9license=('MIT')
    
      10depends=(bat ruby)
    
      11optdepends=('nvim: the recommended editor for power users')
    
      12conflicts=(qed)
    
      13source=(
    
      14  "https://software.concise.cc/x86_64/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-$arch.pkg.tar.xz"
    
      15)
    
      16sha512sums=(
    
      17  '0303a2ba47a3926c3ec2d928948fe10eaf27bfddd7402a31a291780a8124853ad1bfcf28ccde8be4543ddc46615fa59db67436324c7784ac4cdba9eecdc8da5f'
    
      18)
    
      19md5sums=(
    
      20  '5b35607a0a9fcb153f61f182059b8a04'
    
      21)
    
      22validpgpkeys=(
    
      23  '81BACEEBC3EA26E127166E4A819BB92A9A48160E'
    
      24)
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27
    
      28  cd "$srcdir/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-${arch}" ||
    
      29  cd "$srcdir/${pkgname}"
    
      30
    
      31  install -Dm644 usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      32  install -Dm755 usr/bin/* -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      33}
    
      34

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