fontbase

LOW
maintainer krasjet 7 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official release domain (fontba.se), which is plausibly the project's own infrastructure; the AppImage is then extracted and repackaged using standard tools, with no obfuscation or remote code execution, and the final package consists of static files and a start script, so the risk is limited to supply-chain trust in the upstream binary.

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 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official release domain (fontba.se), which is plausibly the project's own infrastructure; the AppImage is then extracted and repackaged using standard tools, with no obfuscation or remote code execution, and the final package consists of static files and a start script, so the risk is limited to supply-chain trust in the upstream binary.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:11 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.AppImage::https://releases.fontba.se/linux/FontBase-$pkgver.AppImage")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Bruce Zhang krasjet
2pkgname=fontbase
3pkgver=2.23.1
4pkgrel=2
5pkgdesc="FontBase is the font manager of the new generation, built by designers, for designers."
6arch=('x86_64' 'i686')
7url="https://fontba.se/"
8license=('custom:FontBase')
9depends=('electron')
10makedepends=('p7zip')
11source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.AppImage::https://releases.fontba.se/linux/FontBase-$pkgver.AppImage")
12
13prepare() {
14 mkdir -p "$pkgname"
15 cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
16 7z x "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver.AppImage"
17 echo "https://fontba.se/legal/terms" > "$srcdir/COPYRIGHT"
18}
19
20package() {
21 cd "$srcdir/$pkgname"
22
23 # Install application
24 cd resources/app
25 find . -type f -exec install -Dm644 {} "$pkgdir/usr/share/fontbase/app/{}" \;
26 cd ../plugins
27 find . -type f -exec install -Dm644 {} "$pkgdir/usr/share/fontbase/plugins/{}" \;
28
29 # Install start script
30 echo "#!/usr/bin/env sh
31exec electron /usr/share/fontbase/app/ \$@
32" > "$srcdir/fontbase.sh"
33 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/fontbase.sh" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/fontbase"
34
35 # Install desktop file
36 sed -i 's/Exec=AppRun/Exec=fontbase/' "$srcdir/$pkgname/fontbase-app.desktop"
37 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/$pkgname/fontbase-app.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/fontbase.desktop"
38
39 # Install license
40 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/COPYRIGHT" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/fontbase/COPYRIGHT"
41
42 # Install icons
43 cd "$srcdir/$pkgname/usr/share/icons/hicolor"
44 find . -type f -exec install -Dm644 {} "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/{}" \;
45}
46sha256sums=('ad20bde8374eeb92843af9cf605a41ab9637efc2a430bbe95e3d4bbdfd066e8c')
47

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
2026-09-11 00:19:22 Low 2
2026-09-10 00:22:44 Low 2
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2026-09-04 00:03:13 Low 2
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2026-09-01 00:11:19 Low 2
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