torrentzip.net

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

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary (TrrntZipCMD) from romvault.com, which is the official project/vendor website for RomVault and its associated tools (the url= field confirms this is the upstream vendor's own site). The binary is installed directly to /usr/bin and executed at runtime. While romvault.com is the legitimate upstream vendor site rather than a random personal host, it is not a well-known forge (GitHub, GitLab, etc.) with transparent release processes, and there is no source code build — only a prebuilt binary. This represents a genuine supply-chain concern: if romvault.com were compromised or the maintainer replaced the binary, users would execute arbitrary code. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against the current artifact but does not mitigate a future substitution attack. This is a real medium-severity concern: a prebuilt binary from an unofficial (non-forge) host installed as an executable, even if it is the legitimate vendor's own site.

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:11 source=("https://www.romvault.com/trrntzip/download/TrrntZip.NET${pkgver//./}Linux.zip")

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 binary (TrrntZipCMD) from romvault.com, which is the official project/vendor website for RomVault and its associated tools (the url= field confirms this is the upstream vendor's own site). The binary is installed directly to /usr/bin and executed at runtime. While romvault.com is the legitimate upstream vendor site rather than a random personal host, it is not a well-known forge (GitHub, GitLab, etc.) with transparent release processes, and there is no source code build — only a prebuilt binary. This represents a genuine supply-chain concern: if romvault.com were compromised or the maintainer replaced the binary, users would execute arbitrary code. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against the current artifact but does not mitigate a future substitution attack. This is a real medium-severity concern: a prebuilt binary from an unofficial (non-forge) host installed as an executable, even if it is the legitimate vendor's own site.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Daniel Bermond <dbermond@archlinux.org>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=torrentzip.net
    
      4pkgver=3.0.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='A replacement for trrntzip - tool for creating idientical zip files over multiple systems'
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url='https://www.romvault.com/trrntzip/'
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-Unknown')
    
      10depends=('gcc-libs')
    
      11source=("https://www.romvault.com/trrntzip/download/TrrntZip.NET${pkgver//./}Linux.zip")
    
      12noextract=("TrrntZip.NET${pkgver//./}Linux.zip")
    
      13sha256sums=('51738b5893f41a2af8a0584a7b7296c677b43e15b7ebeeebe78616efc141dd0d')
    
      14
    
      15prepare() {
    
      16    mkdir -p "torrentzip.net-${pkgver}"
    
      17    bsdtar -x -f "TrrntZip.NET${pkgver//./}Linux.zip" -C "torrentzip.net-${pkgver}"
    
      18}
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21    install -D -m755 "torrentzip.net-${pkgver}/TrrntZipCMD" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      22    ln -s TrrntZipCMD "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/trrntzip.net"
    
      23    ln -s TrrntZipCMD "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/TrrntZip.NET"
    
      24}
    
      25

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