charles

LOW

maintainer pizzaman 58 votes scanned 2026-10-03 00:23:04.761738

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Why flagged

The source is a prebuilt tarball from the official project's domain (charlesproxy.com), which is not on the analyzer's whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the package installs only data and scripts from that source without executing arbitrary remote code.

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 source is a prebuilt tarball from the official project's domain (charlesproxy.com), which is not on the analyzer's whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the package installs only data and scripts from that source without executing arbitrary remote code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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 source=(http://www.charlesproxy.com/assets/release/${pkgver}/charles-proxy-${pkgver}_$arch.tar.gz)

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Luis Aranguren <pizzaman@hotmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Jiabao Lin <me at leolin dot cn>
    
      3# Contributor: Jan-Erik Rediger <badboy at archlinux dot us>
    
      4# Contributor: Alexander Baldeck <lex@tentriplenine.com>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=charles
    
      7_name=charles-proxy5
    
      8pkgver=5.2.1
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="Web debugging proxy application"
    
      11arch=(x86_64)
    
      12url="http://www.charlesproxy.com"
    
      13license=('LicenseRef-Charles-EULA')
    
      14depends=('java-runtime>=8' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
    
      15provides=('charles')
    
      16conflicts=('charles-bin')
    
      17source=(http://www.charlesproxy.com/assets/release/${pkgver}/charles-proxy-${pkgver}_$arch.tar.gz)
    
      18md5sums=('f2e03db5ff4445e14387bfbbc8bfaab9')
    
      19
    
      20build() {
    
      21  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
    
      22}
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
    
      26
    
      27  install -D -m755 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}/bin/charles \
    
      28    ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/charles
    
      29
    
      30  for fn in ${srcdir}/${pkgname}/lib/*.jar; do
    
      31    install -D -m644 ${fn} \
    
      32      ${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${pkgname}/$(basename ${fn})
    
      33  done
    
      34
    
      35  for dim in 16x16  32x32  64x64  128x128  256x256  512x512; do
    
      36    install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}/icon/${dim}/apps/$_name.png \
    
      37      ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${dim}/apps/charles.png
    
      38    for mimetype in $_name-har.png $_name-pcap.png $_name-savedsession.png $_name-trace.png; do
    
      39      install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}/icon/${dim}/mimetypes/$mimetype \
    
      40        ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${dim}/mimetypes/$mimetype
    
      41    done
    
      42  done
    
      43  install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}/icon/128x128/apps/$_name.png \
    
      44    ${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/charles128.png
    
      45
    
      46  install -D -m644 ${srcdir}/${pkgname}/etc/$_name.desktop \
    
      47    ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/$_name.desktop
    
      48
    
      49  sed -i 's/Icon=\.\..\+/Icon=charles/' ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/$_name.desktop
    
      50  #Stop ^- from appearing in home directory
    
      51  sed -i 's/\^-/\/dev\/null/' ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/charles
    
      52  #Use XDG_CONFIG_HOME and if unset use ~/.config/charles rather than ~/ for .charles.config
    
      53  sed -i 's/\~\/\.charles\.config\"/$\{XDG\_CONFIG\_HOME\:\-\~\/\.config\/charles\}\"\/\.charles\.config/' ${pkgdir}/usr/bin/charles
    
      54}
    
      55

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-10-03 00:23:04	Low	2
2026-10-02 00:00:32	Low	2
2026-10-01 00:02:06	Low	2
2026-09-30 00:20:07	Low	2
2026-09-29 00:07:46	Low	2
2026-09-28 00:28:32	Low	2
2026-09-27 00:07:07	Low	2
2026-09-26 00:12:15	Low	2
2026-09-25 00:03:36	Low	2
2026-09-24 00:24:14	Low	2
2026-09-23 00:28:13	Low	2
2026-09-22 00:15:14	Low	2
2026-09-21 00:26:32	Low	2
2026-09-20 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-19 00:25:36	Low	2
2026-09-18 00:17:11	Low	2
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