wooting-bg-service-beta

MEDIUM

maintainer parzival-space 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage executable from a non-standard host (api.wooting.io) which is not on the standard whitelist; while the domain appears legitimate for the project, the use of a non-whitelisted host to deliver an executable that is executed at runtime creates a potential supply-chain risk if the host were compromised or spoofed.

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:20 source=("${_appImageFile}::https://api.wooting.io/public/bg-service/download-installer?target=linux&version=${_pkgver}")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage executable from a non-standard host (api.wooting.io) which is not on the standard whitelist; while the domain appears legitimate for the project, the use of a non-whitelisted host to deliver an executable that is executed at runtime creates a potential supply-chain risk if the host were compromised or spoofed.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Malte Linke <me@parzival.space>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=wooting-bg-service-beta
    
      4pkgdesc='Wooting Background Service for Wootility'
    
      5_pkgver=0.5.1 # renovate: datasource=custom.wooting-bg-service-beta depName=wooting-bg-service-beta versioning=semver
    
      6pkgver=${_pkgver//-/_}
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url="https://wooting.io/wootility"
    
      10license=(unknown)
    
      11provides=('wooting-bg-service')
    
      12conflicts=('wooting-bg-service')
    
      13depends=(glibc fuse2 hicolor-icon-theme zlib)
    
      14options=(!strip)
    
      15
    
      16_appImageFile="${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      17_desktopFile="Wooting Background Service.desktop"
    
      18
    
      19noextract=("${_appImageFile}")
    
      20source=("${_appImageFile}::https://api.wooting.io/public/bg-service/download-installer?target=linux&version=${_pkgver}")
    
      21sha256sums=('8b0858b2f7e52837c8d912e2c51990a084a00bf1feaa972dda0ed29313bb4f89')
    
      22
    
      23prepare() {
    
      24  # create copy of appimage file in case the build dir is mounted with noexec
    
      25  cp "${_appImageFile}" "${_appImageFile}.copy"
    
      26  chmod +x "${_appImageFile}.copy"
    
      27
    
      28  # extract the appimage
    
      29  ./${_appImageFile}.copy --appimage-extract "usr/share/applications"
    
      30  ./${_appImageFile}.copy --appimage-extract "usr/share/icons"
    
      31  rm ${_appImageFile}.copy
    
      32}
    
      33
    
      34build() {
    
      35  # Adjust .desktop so it will work outside of AppImage container, add Utility category
    
      36  sed -i -E "s|Exec=AppRun|Exec=env DESKTOPINTEGRATION=false /usr/bin/${pkgname}|" "squashfs-root/usr/share/applications/${_desktopFile}"
    
      37  echo "Categories=Utility;" >> "squashfs-root/usr/share/applications/${_desktopFile}"
    
      38
    
      39  # Fix permissions; .AppImage permissions are 700 for all directories
    
      40  chmod -R a-x+rX squashfs-root/usr
    
      41}
    
      42
    
      43package() {
    
      44  install -Dm755 ${_appImageFile} -t "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
    
      45
    
      46  # Symlink executable
    
      47  install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
    
      48  ln -s /opt/${pkgname}/${_appImageFile} "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname//-beta/}"
    
      49
    
      50  # Install desktop entry and icons
    
      51  install -Dm644 "squashfs-root/usr/share/applications/${_desktopFile}" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      52  install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
    
      53  cp -a squashfs-root/usr/share/icons "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
    
      54}
    
      55

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-20 00:10
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 pkgname=wooting-bg-service-beta
 pkgdesc='Wooting Background Service for Wootility'
-_pkgver=0.5.0 # renovate: datasource=custom.wooting-bg-service-beta depName=wooting-bg-service-beta versioning=semver
+_pkgver=0.5.1 # renovate: datasource=custom.wooting-bg-service-beta depName=wooting-bg-service-beta versioning=semver
 pkgver=${_pkgver//-/_}
 pkgrel=1
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 
 noextract=("${_appImageFile}")
 source=("${_appImageFile}::https://api.wooting.io/public/bg-service/download-installer?target=linux&version=${_pkgver}")
-sha256sums=('7b9350f6b131766be86d73044037eb9d4d287c80ce775e0011f1fb4a4442e955')
+sha256sums=('8b0858b2f7e52837c8d912e2c51990a084a00bf1feaa972dda0ed29313bb4f89')
 
 prepare() {
   # create copy of appimage file in case the build dir is mounted with noexec

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 09:27:54	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2