video-collector-client

MEDIUM
maintainer skylab 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (pkg.tar.zst) from gitflic.ru, which is a Russian code-hosting platform analogous to GitHub but not a widely recognized or audited release infrastructure. The critical concerns are: (1) a prebuilt binary is being fetched and presumably installed directly — this is an executed binary from a personal/unofficial host, not built from source; (2) sha256sums is set to 'SKIP', meaning there is zero integrity verification — any substitution of the binary at the source URL would go undetected; (3) gitflic.ru is a personal project host with no established trust model in the Arch packaging ecosystem. The combination of an unverified prebuilt binary from a non-standard host constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. This is not clearly malicious, but it is a real medium-severity concern: if the host or the project account were compromised, arbitrary code would be installed on users' systems with no checksum protection.

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=("https://registry.gitflic.ru/project/skylab/video-collector/package/-/generic/video-collector-client/${pkgver}/video-collector-client-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (pkg.tar.zst) from gitflic.ru, which is a Russian code-hosting platform analogous to GitHub but not a widely recognized or audited release infrastructure. The critical concerns are: (1) a prebuilt binary is being fetched and presumably installed directly — this is an executed binary from a personal/unofficial host, not built from source; (2) sha256sums is set to 'SKIP', meaning there is zero integrity verification — any substitution of the binary at the source URL would go undetected; (3) gitflic.ru is a personal project host with no established trust model in the Arch packaging ecosystem. The combination of an unverified prebuilt binary from a non-standard host constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. This is not clearly malicious, but it is a real medium-severity concern: if the host or the project account were compromised, arbitrary code would be installed on users' systems with no checksum protection.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Skylab <si.ni.cyn+aur át bk d၀t ru>
2 pkgname=video-collector-client
3 pkgver=24
4 pkgrel=1
5 pkgdesc="Клиент для сервиса загрузки видео с видеохостингов в локальное хранилище для дальнейшего автономного просмотра"
6 arch=('x86_64')
7 url="https://gitflic.ru/project/skylab/video-collector"
8 license=('MIT')
9 depends=('ffmpeg')
10 source=("https://registry.gitflic.ru/project/skylab/video-collector/package/-/generic/video-collector-client/${pkgver}/video-collector-client-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
11 sha256sums=('SKIP')
12

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