ape

maintainer Erim · 3 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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      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)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2