deviceshelf-bin

LOW

maintainer deviceshelf 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official project's own domain (downloads.deviceshelf.app), which is plausibly controlled by the vendor; while the host is not on standard whitelists, it is not a third-party file-sharing service, and the binary is installed directly without obfuscation or additional payloads.

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 prebuilt .deb from the official project's own domain (downloads.deviceshelf.app), which is plausibly controlled by the vendor; while the host is not on standard whitelists, it is not a third-party file-sharing service, and the binary is installed directly without obfuscation or additional payloads.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://downloads.deviceshelf.app/DeviceShelf-${pkgver}.deb")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Christof Müller <hello@deviceshelf.app>
    
      2pkgname=deviceshelf-bin
    
      3pkgver=1.9.34
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Local-first network scanner: discover and identify every device on your LAN, with open ports and a security report"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://deviceshelf.app"
    
      8# Proprietary, paid software with a 7-day trial. The terms live on the website;
    
      9# the package ships no licence file of its own, so LicenseRef- it is.
    
      10license=('LicenseRef-DeviceShelf')
    
      11# Matches the Depends line of the upstream .deb: gtk3, webkit2gtk-4.1, libpcap.
    
      12# libpcap is not optional — the binary links wpcap/libpcap at load time.
    
      13depends=('gtk3' 'webkit2gtk-4.1' 'libpcap')
    
      14provides=('deviceshelf')
    
      15conflicts=('deviceshelf')
    
      16options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      17source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://downloads.deviceshelf.app/DeviceShelf-${pkgver}.deb")
    
      18sha256sums=('86aef72cb7dbade6a8880455b26004d78f65c2e16e8557627440736498a7b923')
    
      19
    
      20package() {
    
      21  # The .deb already follows the FHS: /usr/bin/deviceshelf, a .desktop entry and
    
      22  # a 512px hicolor icon. Unpacking data.tar.gz straight into $pkgdir is enough.
    
      23  bsdtar -xf data.tar.gz -C "$pkgdir"
    
      24
    
      25  # Upstream puts its README under /usr/share/doc/deviceshelf; keep it, and add
    
      26  # a licence pointer where pacman users look for one.
    
      27  install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname"
    
      28  ln -s /usr/share/doc/deviceshelf/README "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/README"
    
      29}
    
      30

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-12 00:25
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Christof Müller <hello@deviceshelf.app>
 pkgname=deviceshelf-bin
-pkgver=1.7.7
+pkgver=1.9.34
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Local-first network scanner: discover and identify every device on your LAN, with open ports and a security report"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 conflicts=('deviceshelf')
 options=('!strip' '!debug')
 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.deb::https://downloads.deviceshelf.app/DeviceShelf-${pkgver}.deb")
-sha256sums=('b1982c5285c0df29622529552f2aeadfd6c6ca1aea781b71fee99d1a4440db78')
+sha256sums=('86aef72cb7dbade6a8880455b26004d78f65c2e16e8557627440736498a7b923')
 
 package() {
   # The .deb already follows the FHS: /usr/bin/deviceshelf, a .desktop entry and

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 21:12:39	Medium	1
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