avast-rest

LOW

maintainer tfi 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a Debian package from Avast's official repository domain (avcdn.net), which is plausibly the project's own source; extracting and installing its contents is standard for converting .deb to Arch packages, and the checksums are provided and valid.

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 Debian package from Avast's official repository domain (avcdn.net), which is plausibly the project's own source; extracting and installing its contents is standard for converting .deb to Arch packages, and the checksums are provided and valid.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:17 "https://repo.avcdn.net/linux-av/deb/pool/debian-bullseye/avast-rest_${pkgver}-${_pkgverbuild}_amd64.deb"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: TF <mail | at | sedi [DOT] one>
    
      2pkgname=avast-rest
    
      3pkgver=4.1.0
    
      4_pkgverbuild='1~debian11'
    
      5pkgrel=5
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7pkgdesc='Avast Antivirus REST API. Provides a REST API for the avast scanner.'
    
      8url='https://www.avast.com/business/products/linux-antivirus'
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10noextract=("avast-rest_${pkgver}-${_pkgverbuild}_amd64.deb" )
    
      11options=("!strip")
    
      12install=${pkgname}.install
    
      13depends=("avast=${pkgver}")
    
      14backup=('etc/avast/rest.conf')
    
      15# Ubuntu Jammy depends on OpenSSL v3 (alpha) and I dont want to depend on openssl3-git here. so.. bullseye
    
      16source=(
    
      17        "https://repo.avcdn.net/linux-av/deb/pool/debian-bullseye/avast-rest_${pkgver}-${_pkgverbuild}_amd64.deb"
    
      18        "${pkgname}.install"
    
      19       )
    
      20sha256sums=('ed4d2138f8d85105ff562f7060d08c02b06b8ce1a59fad37027c1c6f8ea1d0c3'
    
      21            'd8b5d7a89e84332cd0f0344ce71e34f2460a1d3b5312f9f36ce35a8e6940c249')
    
      22validpgpkeys=('6AFE173577C4CBD621DF217FD093435AA3ED2C4A')
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25    # uncompress base packages
    
      26    bsdtar -xf avast-rest_${pkgver}-${_pkgverbuild}_amd64.deb
    
      27    bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C ${pkgdir}/
    
      28
    
      29    # install deb post/pre scripts
    
      30    [ ! -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/${pkgname}/pkgscripts" ] && mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/share/${pkgname}/pkgscripts
    
      31    bsdtar -xf control.tar.gz -C ${pkgdir}/usr/share/${pkgname}/pkgscripts
    
      32    chmod -R 755 ${pkgdir}/usr/share/${pkgname}/pkgscripts
    
      33
    
      34    # install lic
    
      35    mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/
    
      36    install -Dm644 $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname/LICENSE $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/
    
      37}
    
      38

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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