charles

maintainer pizzaman · 58 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      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

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-19 19:07
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-18 00:03
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 
 pkgname=charles
 _name=charles-proxy5
-pkgver=5.2
+pkgver=5.2.1
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Web debugging proxy application"
 arch=(x86_64)
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 provides=('charles')
 conflicts=('charles-bin')
 source=(http://www.charlesproxy.com/assets/release/${pkgver}/charles-proxy-${pkgver}_$arch.tar.gz)
-md5sums=('6887ce78ba5b1574ed67c7b09720627a')
+md5sums=('f2e03db5ff4445e14387bfbbc8bfaab9')
 
 build() {
   cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	LOW	2
2026-08-17 00:18:29	LOW	2
2026-08-16 00:03:42	LOW	2
2026-08-15 00:26:13	LOW	2
2026-08-14 00:03:41	LOW	2
2026-08-13 00:17:07	LOW	2
2026-08-12 05:22:53	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-19 19:07:35	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 18:04:49	CLEAN	2
2026-06-18 16:11:54	MEDIUM	1