basex

LOW

maintainer drrossum 24 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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      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

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