vision-browser

maintainer browser.vision · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged This PKGBUILD downloads a prebuilt proprietary binary .deb from an AWS S3 bucket (vision-releases.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com) controlled by the vendor, extracts it, and installs it directly. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against tampering in transit, but the S3 bucket is not a canonical, auditable release host — it is a private bucket that could be modified by whoever controls it without any public transparency (no GitHub releases, no signed artifacts, no reproducible build). The package installs executed binaries (an antidetect browser, which is inherently a high-risk category of software) from this unofficial host. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: the binary is executed code from a non-standard host with no code signing or independent verification beyond the sha256 pinned in the PKGBUILD. The antidetect browser use-case also raises concerns about the software's purpose, but that alone does not elevate to high. No obfuscation, encoding, or active exfiltration is present in the PKGBUILD itself.

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:15 source_x86_64=("${_debfile}::https://vision-releases.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/v3.3.38/linux-deb/vision_3.3.38_amd64.deb")

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 proprietary binary .deb from an AWS S3 bucket (vision-releases.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com) controlled by the vendor, extracts it, and installs it directly. The sha256sum provides integrity checking against tampering in transit, but the S3 bucket is not a canonical, auditable release host — it is a private bucket that could be modified by whoever controls it without any public transparency (no GitHub releases, no signed artifacts, no reproducible build). The package installs executed binaries (an antidetect browser, which is inherently a high-risk category of software) from this unofficial host. This is a genuine medium-severity supply-chain concern: the binary is executed code from a non-standard host with no code signing or independent verification beyond the sha256 pinned in the PKGBUILD. The antidetect browser use-case also raises concerns about the software's purpose, but that alone does not elevate to high. No obfuscation, encoding, or active exfiltration is present in the PKGBUILD itself.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1_pkgname=vision-browser
    
      2
    
      3pkgname="${_pkgname}"
    
      4pkgver=3.3.38
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Vision browser is antidetect browser"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://browser.vision/"
    
      9license=('Proprietary')
    
      10depends=('xdotool' 'webkit2gtk-4.1')
    
      11optdepends=('gnome-terminal')
    
      12makedepends=('binutils')
    
      13options=(!strip)
    
      14_debfile="${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb"
    
      15source_x86_64=("${_debfile}::https://vision-releases.s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com/v3.3.38/linux-deb/vision_3.3.38_amd64.deb")
    
      16noextract=("${_debfile}")
    
      17sha256sums_x86_64=('6889698aa39997072d60ca1312e7463ee3946320497296c013434726876ca4a6')
    
      18
    
      19package() {
    
      20    cd "$srcdir"
    
      21    ar x "${_debfile}"
    
      22    tar -xvf data.tar.* -C "$pkgdir/"
    
      23}
    
      24

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