ape

LOW
maintainer Erim 3 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt zip from a university-hosted project page, which is plausible for academic software; the source is not executed directly but installed as-is, and the build process is transparent, resulting in low risk despite the non-whitelisted host.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt zip from a university-hosted project page, which is plausible for academic software; the source is not executed directly but installed as-is, and the build process is transparent, resulting in low risk despite the non-whitelisted host.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
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:12 source=("https://jorgensen.biology.utah.edu/wayned/ape/Download/Linux/ApE_linux_current.zip")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Erim <Erim4@yahoo.com>
2
3pkgname=ape
4pkgver=3.1.9
5pkgrel=1
6pkgdesc="A plasmid editor"
7arch=('any')
8url="https://jorgensen.biology.utah.edu/wayned/ape/"
9license=('proprietary')
10depends=('tclkit' 'sdx')
11makedepends=('imagemagick')
12source=("https://jorgensen.biology.utah.edu/wayned/ape/Download/Linux/ApE_linux_current.zip")
13md5sums=('39d2de1d0056a29faf2b5ef2b0dcca0e')
14b2sums=('c8d7d4a4e063e95a6a39005143cda1bd4fb2ab2791f4a2a90e0d525bf8d9aaf4d3cc5f0a9bef7d7d1168d5f93fe587ad9734ac1b77b1f51f7362e00c2de64687')
15sha256sums=('729ddba56f93f0398a6b05a00611fad514c7859fdad4bf0b5e16655388d0b4f4')
16
17build() {
18 cat <<EOF > ape
19#!/bin/sh
20tclkit-dyn /opt/ApE/ApE.tcl $@
21EOF
22
23 cat <<EOF > ApE.desktop
24[Desktop Entry]
25Name=ApE
26GenericName=A Plasmid Editor
27Comment=a tcl/tk plasmid editor
28Exec=ape
29Icon=/opt/ApE/Accessory Files/Icons and images/ApE_icon_200.png
30Terminal=false
31Type=Application
32Categories=Education;Science;Biology;
33EOF
34}
35
36package() {
37 install -d "$pkgdir/opt"
38 cp -r "./ApE Linux" "$pkgdir/opt/ApE"
39 install -m755 -D ape "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ape"
40# install -m644 -D ape-48x48.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/ape.png"
41# install -m644 -D ape-128x128.png "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ape.png"
42 install -m644 -D ApE.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/ApE.desktop"
43}
44
45

Scan history

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

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