datefile

maintainer zxp19821005 · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The npx electron-packager invocation is not fetching a remote package at build time in a dangerous way — electron-packager is installed as a dev dependency via 'npm install' from the project's package.json (which is sourced from the tagged git repo). npx here simply runs the locally-installed binary from node_modules/.bin. The source is a pinned git tag from the upstream GitHub repo with a verified sha256sum. The npm registry mirror switch for CN users is a common pattern in AUR packages and uses npmmirror.com (the official Chinese npm mirror). The overall pattern is a standard Electron app build using system electron. The main concern is the usual npm dependency chain risk (no lockfile enforcement), but this is low severity — sloppy/non-standard rather than a genuine supply-chain attack vector. No executed binaries from unofficial hosts, no obfuscation, no piracy.

Triggered rules

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 80%): The npx electron-packager invocation is not fetching a remote package at build time in a dangerous way — electron-packager is installed as a dev dependency via 'npm install' from the project's package.json (which is sourced from the tagged git repo). npx here simply runs the locally-installed binary from node_modules/.bin. The source is a pinned git tag from the upstream GitHub repo with a verified sha256sum. The npm registry mirror switch for CN users is a common pattern in AUR packages and uses npmmirror.com (the official Chinese npm mirror). The overall pattern is a standard Electron app build using system electron. The main concern is the usual npm dependency chain risk (no lockfile enforcement), but this is low severity — sloppy/non-standard rather than a genuine supply-chain attack vector. No executed binaries from unofficial hosts, no obfuscation, no piracy.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM npx/bunx/deno executes a remote package remote_code_tool

`npx`/`bunx`/`pnpm dlx`/`deno run <url>` downloads AND runs a remote package at build time — the moral equivalent of piping a download into a shell. Severity downgraded: Node.js consumer context.

PKGBUILD:69 NODE_ENV=production npx electron-packager . "${_pkgname}" \

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: zxp19821005 <zxp19821005 at 163 dot com>
    
      2pkgname=datefile
    
      3_pkgname=DateFile
    
      4_appname=DateFIle
    
      5pkgver=0.1.0
    
      6_electronversion=25
    
      7_nodeversion=18
    
      8pkgrel=11
    
      9pkgdesc="Index files in a directory using the date of another file as a filter.(Use system-wide electron)"
    
      10arch=('any')
    
      11url="https://github.com/kna40/DateFile"
    
      12license=('MIT')
    
      13conflicts=("${pkgname}")
    
      14depends=(
    
      15    "electron${_electronversion}"
    
      16)
    
      17makedepends=(
    
      18    'curl'
    
      19    'npm'
    
      20    'nvm'
    
      21    'gendesk'
    
      22    'git'
    
      23)
    
      24source=(
    
      25    "${pkgname}-${pkgver}::git+${url}#tag=v${pkgver}"
    
      26    "${pkgname}.sh"
    
      27)
    
      28sha256sums=('ea4233f412e9b009109badb65c17ced62ac46f98bb68be6ef134e9a74da0242a'
    
      29            '291f50480f5a61bc9c68db7d44cd0412071128706baa868a9cb854f8779a1980')
    
      30_ensure_local_nvm() {
    
      31    local NVM_DIR="${srcdir}/.nvm"
    
      32    source /usr/share/nvm/init-nvm.sh || [[ $? != 1 ]]
    
      33    nvm install "${_nodeversion}"
    
      34    nvm use "${_nodeversion}"
    
      35}
    
      36prepare() {
    
      37    sed -i -e "
    
      38        s/@electronversion@/${_electronversion}/g
    
      39        s/@appname@/${pkgname}/g
    
      40        s/@runname@/app.asar/g
    
      41        s/@cfgdirname@/${_appname}/g
    
      42        s/@options@/env ELECTRON_OZONE_PLATFORM_HINT=auto/g
    
      43    " -i "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.sh"
    
      44    gendesk -f -n -q --pkgname="${pkgname}" --pkgdesc="${pkgdesc}" --categories="Utility" --name="${_pkgname}" --exec="${pkgname} %U"
    
      45    _ensure_local_nvm
    
      46    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      47    export ELECTRON_SKIP_BINARY_DOWNLOAD=1
    
      48    export SYSTEM_ELECTRON_VERSION="$(electron${_electronversion} -v | sed 's/v//g')"
    
      49    HOME="${srcdir}/.electron-gyp"
    
      50    {
    
      51        echo -e '\n'
    
      52        #echo 'build_from_source=true'
    
      53        echo "cache=${srcdir}/.npm_cache"
    
      54        echo "maxsockets=10"
    
      55    } >> .npmrc
    
      56    if [[ "$(curl -s ipinfo.io/country)" == *"CN"* ]]; then
    
      57        {
    
      58            echo 'registry=https://registry.npmmirror.com'
    
      59            echo 'electron_mirror=https://registry.npmmirror.com/-/binary/electron/'
    
      60            echo 'electron_builder_binaries_mirror=https://registry.npmmirror.com/-/binary/electron-builder-binaries/'
    
      61        } >> .npmrc
    
      62        find ./ -type f -name "package-lock.json" -exec sed -i "s/registry.npmjs.org/registry.npmmirror.com/g" {} +
    
      63    fi
    
      64    sed -i "s/\"electron\": \"[^\"]*\"/\"electron\": \"${SYSTEM_ELECTRON_VERSION}\"/g" package.json
    
      65    NODE_ENV=development    npm install
    
      66}
    
      67build() {
    
      68    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}"
    
      69    NODE_ENV=production     npx electron-packager . "${_pkgname}" \
    
      70                                --platform=linux \
    
      71                                --mode=production \
    
      72                                --out=./release \
    
      73                                --ignore=node_modules \
    
      74                                --ignore=mainDev.js \
    
      75                                --ignore=electron-builder.json \
    
      76                                --ingore=webpack.config.js \
    
      77                                --ingore=webpack.react.config.js  \
    
      78                                --ingore=webpack.electron.config.js \
    
      79                                --icon=./assets/"${pkgname}.png" \
    
      80                                --asar
    
      81}
    
      82package() {
    
      83    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      84    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/release/${_pkgname}-linux-"*/resources/app.asar -t "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/${pkgname}"
    
      85    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/assets/${pkgname}.png" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps"
    
      86    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/release/${_pkgname}-linux-"*/LICENSE* -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}"
    
      87    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop" -t "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      88}

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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 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
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2