versiobit

MEDIUM

maintainer versiobit 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary zip from releases.versiobit.com (a project-specific but unofficial/unverified host) and installs it directly into /opt, symlinking the binary into /usr/bin. Two concrete concerns: (1) sha512sums is SKIP, meaning there is zero integrity verification — any compromise of the release host or a MITM would silently deliver malicious binaries; (2) the installed artifact is a prebuilt executable blob, not source-compiled, so the contents cannot be audited from the PKGBUILD alone. The host is the project's own release server (releases.versiobit.com), which is a common pattern for proprietary desktop apps in the AUR, so this is not clearly malicious. However, the combination of an unverified prebuilt binary from a non-standard host with SKIP checksums constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk, consistent with 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:10 source=("versiobit-$pkgver.zip::https://releases.versiobit.com/linux/generic/versiobit-$pkgver.zip")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary zip from releases.versiobit.com (a project-specific but unofficial/unverified host) and installs it directly into /opt, symlinking the binary into /usr/bin. Two concrete concerns: (1) sha512sums is SKIP, meaning there is zero integrity verification — any compromise of the release host or a MITM would silently deliver malicious binaries; (2) the installed artifact is a prebuilt executable blob, not source-compiled, so the contents cannot be audited from the PKGBUILD alone. The host is the project's own release server (releases.versiobit.com), which is a common pattern for proprietary desktop apps in the AUR, so this is not clearly malicious. However, the combination of an unverified prebuilt binary from a non-standard host with SKIP checksums constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk, consistent with a MEDIUM rating.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1pkgname=versiobit
    
      2pkgver=3.18
    
      3pkgrel=1
    
      4pkgdesc="Versiobit Desktop App"
    
      5arch=("x86_64")
    
      6url="https://versiobit.com"
    
      7license=("custom")
    
      8#depends=('dependencies_required_by_your_software')
    
      9
    
      10source=("versiobit-$pkgver.zip::https://releases.versiobit.com/linux/generic/versiobit-$pkgver.zip")
    
      11sha512sums=("SKIP")
    
      12
    
      13package() {
    
      14    cd "$srcdir"
    
      15    unzip -o versiobit-$pkgver.zip
    
      16    mkdir "$pkgdir/opt"
    
      17    cp -r "$srcdir/versiobit" "$pkgdir/opt/versiobit"
    
      18    
    
      19    mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      20    ln -s "/opt/versiobit/bin/versiobit" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/versiobit"
    
      21}
    
      22

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2