video-collector-client
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
source_untrusted_domain
One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).
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PKGBUILD:10
source=("https://registry.gitflic.ru/project/skylab/video-collector/package/-/generic/video-collector-client/${pkgver}/video-collector-client-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
llm_review
An AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 82%): The PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt binary package (pkg.tar.zst) from gitflic.ru, which is a Russian code-hosting platform analogous to GitHub but not a widely recognized or audited release infrastructure. The critical concerns are: (1) a prebuilt binary is being fetched and presumably installed directly — this is an executed binary from a personal/unofficial host, not built from source; (2) sha256sums is set to 'SKIP', meaning there is zero integrity verification — any substitution of the binary at the source URL would go undetected; (3) gitflic.ru is a personal project host with no established trust model in the Arch packaging ecosystem. The combination of an unverified prebuilt binary from a non-standard host constitutes a genuine supply-chain risk. This is not clearly malicious, but it is a real medium-severity concern: if the host or the project account were compromised, arbitrary code would be installed on users' systems with no checksum protection.
PKGBUILD
1 offending line(s) highlighted# Maintainer: Skylab <si.ni.cyn+aur át bk d၀t ru>
pkgname=video-collector-client
pkgver=24
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Клиент для сервиса загрузки видео с видеохостингов в локальное хранилище для дальнейшего автономного просмотра"
arch=('x86_64')
url="https://gitflic.ru/project/skylab/video-collector"
license=('MIT')
depends=('ffmpeg')
source=("https://registry.gitflic.ru/project/skylab/video-collector/package/-/generic/video-collector-client/${pkgver}/video-collector-client-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst")
sha256sums=('SKIP')
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 |