basex

maintainer drrossum · 24 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a source ZIP from the project's official domain (files.basex.org), which is not on standard whitelists but is legitimate for the project; the archive is checksummed and contains only buildable Java binaries and resources, with no evidence of remote code execution or obfuscation.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a source ZIP from the project's official domain (files.basex.org), which is not on standard whitelists but is legitimate for the project; the archive is checksummed and contains only buildable Java binaries and resources, with no evidence of remote code execution or obfuscation.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 source=("http://files.basex.org/releases/${pkgver}/BaseX${pkgver//./}.zip"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Daan van Rossum <d.r.vanrossum_at gmx.de>
    
      2# Contributor: Christopher Heien <chris.h.heien@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: Lazaros Koromilas <koromilaz@gmail.com>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=basex
    
      6pkgver=12.4
    
      7pkgrel=2
    
      8pkgdesc="Light-weight, high-performance XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor."
    
      9arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      10url="https://basex.org/"
    
      11license=('BSD')
    
      12makedepends=('java-environment')
    
      13depends=('java-runtime' 'bash')
    
      14source=("http://files.basex.org/releases/${pkgver}/BaseX${pkgver//./}.zip" 
    
      15        "basex.sh" 
    
      16        "BaseX.desktop")
    
      17sha1sums=('f645b5725d912d3cef6d5be9aa0ed2cd07e26124'
    
      18          'b82c43d2f247d65b93b2f073543b8ceee038bfd1'
    
      19          '1f2e10e989258cc41e8d516efa80801038142358')
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  # install profile.d script
    
      23  install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d || return 1
    
      24  install -m755 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}.sh ${pkgdir}/etc/profile.d || return 1
    
      25
    
      26  # Get the BASEX_HOME env var
    
      27  source ${srcdir}/${pkgname}.sh || return 1
    
      28
    
      29  cd ${srcdir}
    
      30  install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/${BASEX_HOME}/{bin,lib,img} || return 1
    
      31
    
      32  # install gui shortcuts
    
      33  install -dm755 ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications || return 1 
    
      34  install -m755 BaseX.desktop ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications || return 1
    
      35
    
      36  # install licence
    
      37  install -D -m644 basex/LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      38  
    
      39  # extract and install logo
    
      40  jar -xf basex/BaseX.jar img/logo_large-0.png
    
      41  install -m644 img/logo_large-0.png ${pkgdir}/${BASEX_HOME}/img || return 1	 
    
      42
    
      43  install -m644 basex/*.jar ${pkgdir}/${BASEX_HOME} || return 1
    
      44  install -m644 basex/lib/*.jar ${pkgdir}/${BASEX_HOME}/lib || return 1
    
      45  cp -Rp basex/etc ${pkgdir}/${BASEX_HOME} || return 1
    
      46
    
      47  # Do not copy Windows .bat/.cmd files
    
      48  find basex/bin -type f -a ! -name \*.bat -a ! -name \*.cmd \
    
      49    -exec install -m755 {} ${pkgdir}/${BASEX_HOME}/bin \; || return 1
    
      50}
    
      51

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-21 00:24
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 # Contributor: Lazaros Koromilas <koromilaz@gmail.com>
 
 pkgname=basex
-pkgver=12.2
+pkgver=12.4
 pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Light-weight, high-performance XML database system and XPath/XQuery processor."
 arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 source=("http://files.basex.org/releases/${pkgver}/BaseX${pkgver//./}.zip" 
         "basex.sh" 
         "BaseX.desktop")
-sha1sums=('af867f03a117d5c7a9b6f6c020219728483dee2b'
+sha1sums=('f645b5725d912d3cef6d5be9aa0ed2cd07e26124'
           'b82c43d2f247d65b93b2f073543b8ceee038bfd1'
           '1f2e10e989258cc41e8d516efa80801038142358')
 

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 13:17:02	MEDIUM	1
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