valentina-studio

maintainer bobolin · 36 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary RPM from valentina-db.com (the official vendor website for Valentina Studio) and installs its contents directly. While valentina-db.com is the legitimate upstream vendor, the concern is that this is a closed-source prebuilt binary blob being installed without any build step — the SHA256 checksum provides integrity but not authenticity. The binary is executed at runtime by users. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: if the vendor's download server were compromised or the file replaced, users would receive and run malicious binaries. However, this is the official vendor host (not a personal/unofficial mirror), the checksum is present, and this pattern is common for proprietary software in the AUR. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is essentially correct — prebuilt closed-source binaries from any host carry inherent supply-chain risk — though the risk is mitigated by the checksum and official vendor origin.

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_x86_64=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.rpm::http://valentina-db.com/download/prev_releases/${pkgver}/lin_64/vstudio_x64_17_lin.rpm")

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 RPM from valentina-db.com (the official vendor website for Valentina Studio) and installs its contents directly. While valentina-db.com is the legitimate upstream vendor, the concern is that this is a closed-source prebuilt binary blob being installed without any build step — the SHA256 checksum provides integrity but not authenticity. The binary is executed at runtime by users. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: if the vendor's download server were compromised or the file replaced, users would receive and run malicious binaries. However, this is the official vendor host (not a personal/unofficial mirror), the checksum is present, and this pattern is common for proprietary software in the AUR. The cheaper model's MEDIUM rating is essentially correct — prebuilt closed-source binaries from any host carry inherent supply-chain risk — though the risk is mitigated by the checksum and official vendor origin.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Borislav Borisov <borislav.borisov@yahoo.com>
    
      2# Contributor: 3ED_0 <krzysztof1987 at gmail>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=valentina-studio
    
      5pkgver=17.4
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7pkgdesc="Create, administer, query and explore DuckDB, ValentinaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server & SQLite databases for FREE."
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="http://www.valentina-db.com"
    
      10license=('custom')
    
      11source_x86_64=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.rpm::http://valentina-db.com/download/prev_releases/${pkgver}/lin_64/vstudio_x64_17_lin.rpm")
    
      12sha256sums_x86_64=('61d6cf095ecf6c4b1d4cfb5c6a634dae771c79f348ed2dea7383b77afa1fb119')
    
      13options=(!debug)
    
      14package() {
    
      15	install -d "${pkgdir}"/opt/VStudio
    
      16	install -d "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications
    
      17	cp --preserve=mode -r "${srcdir}"/opt/VStudio/* "${pkgdir}"/opt/VStudio
    
      18	cp --preserve=mode -r "${srcdir}"/usr/share/applications/* "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications
    
      19}
    
      20

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	MEDIUM	2