exciting

LOW
maintainer a.kudelin 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The source is a tarball from a project-associated host (wdfiles.com, used by wikidot sites) for building the software from source; it is not an unverifiable prebuilt binary, and the realistic risk from a swapped source is limited to supply-chain issues in the built code, not automatic remote code execution.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 90%): The source is a tarball from a project-associated host (wdfiles.com, used by wikidot sites) for building the software from source; it is not an unverifiable prebuilt binary, and the realistic risk from a swapped source is limited to supply-chain issues in the built code, not automatic remote code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=("http://exciting.wdfiles.com/local--files/$_isotope/$pkgname.$_element.tar.gz"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Anton Kudelin <kudelin at protonmail dot com>
2
3pkgname=exciting
4pkgver=16
5_element=oxygen
6pkgrel=1
7pkgdesc="A full-potential all-electron density-functional-theory package"
8arch=("x86_64")
9url="https://exciting-code.org"
10license=("GPL")
11depends=('scalapack' 'arpack')
12source=("http://exciting.wdfiles.com/local--files/$_isotope/$pkgname.$_element.tar.gz"
13 "make.inc")
14sha256sums=('2096aa95bf8b0774ea0187a8bac7d3fb6bb6316f3f49ae19936c61401acd0268'
15 '30503a36da77ee97fd7c6beb4445b1215915fad41e4714368b5584866131e5fe')
16
17prepare() {
18 cd "$srcdir/$pkgname/build"
19 cp "$srcdir/make.inc" .
20 sed -i 's/libs:: libbzint.a fftlib.a libarpack.a libmsec.a libfox leblaiklib.a libxc.a liblbfgs.a/libs:: libbzint.a fftlib.a libmsec.a libfox leblaiklib.a libxc.a liblbfgs.a/g' Make.common
21}
22
23build() {
24 cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
25 make mpi
26}
27
28package() {
29 cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
30 install -d "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
31 cp -r bin/* "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
32 install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname"
33 chmod -R 755 docs
34 cp -r docs/* "$pkgdir/usr/share/doc/$pkgname"
35}
36

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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
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2026-09-01 00:11:19 Low 2
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