gams

MEDIUM

maintainer dybdeskarphet 4 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt Windows executable (.exe) from a CloudFront CDN URL, which is then used in the build; while CloudFront is a standard hosting service, the source is a non-whitelisted, non-official domain for the project, and the payload is an unverifiable self-extracting archive, posing a potential supply-chain risk if the domain were compromised.

Triggered rules

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:18 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.exe::https://d37drm4t2jghv5.cloudfront.net/distributions/$pkgver/linux/linux_x64_64_sfx.exe"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt Windows executable (.exe) from a CloudFront CDN URL, which is then used in the build; while CloudFront is a standard hosting service, the source is a non-whitelisted, non-official domain for the project, and the payload is an unverifiable self-extracting archive, posing a potential supply-chain risk if the domain were compromised.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Ahmet Arda Kavakcı <ahmetardakavakci at gmail dot com>
    
      2# Contributor: Marco Rodolfi <marco dot rodolfi at tuta dot io>
    
      3# Contributor: gaelic <gaelic at luchmhor dot net>
    
      4# Contributor: Peter Reschenhofer <peterreschenhofer at gmail dot com>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=gams
    
      7pkgver=54.4.0
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc='A high-level modeling system for mathematical optimization'
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11license=('custom')
    
      12url='https://gams.com/'
    
      13depends=('glibc' 'fuse2')
    
      14optdepends=('zlib: required by some solvers'
    
      15  'libxkbcommon: Wayland keyboard support for GAMS Studio')
    
      16options=('!strip')
    
      17# Official GAMS CDN, as linked from https://gams.com/download/
    
      18source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.exe::https://d37drm4t2jghv5.cloudfront.net/distributions/$pkgver/linux/linux_x64_64_sfx.exe"
    
      19  "gams-studio.desktop")
    
      20sha256sums=('e395dfb124caf6372340dbbd9616939125c680fbec5291046db0d73d6e88db85'
    
      21            'e05cf76f5980b5a44c35dd812afafde262a53a00fc9fa89bcbca68e26a8edb16')
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24  install -d "$pkgdir/opt/gams" "$pkgdir/usr/bin"
    
      25  cp -a --no-preserve=ownership "gams${pkgver::4}_linux_x64_64_sfx/"* "$pkgdir/opt/gams/"
    
      26  install -Dvm644 gams-studio.desktop -t "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/"
    
      27  ln -sv "/opt/gams/gams" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/gams"
    
      28  ln -sv "/opt/gams/studio/studio.AppImage" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/gams-studio"
    
      29
    
      30  # license
    
      31  install -Dvm644 "gams${pkgver::4}_linux_x64_64_sfx/EULA.md" \
    
      32    "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
    
      33}
    
      34

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-12 00:25
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Contributor: Peter Reschenhofer <peterreschenhofer at gmail dot com>
 
 pkgname=gams
-pkgver=54.3.1
+pkgver=54.4.0
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='A high-level modeling system for mathematical optimization'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 # Official GAMS CDN, as linked from https://gams.com/download/
 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.exe::https://d37drm4t2jghv5.cloudfront.net/distributions/$pkgver/linux/linux_x64_64_sfx.exe"
   "gams-studio.desktop")
-sha256sums=('cff00b54dacb7c9178520e0e2dec4a2d7d38f9d61f56c58e8e2b3f5efda37481'
+sha256sums=('e395dfb124caf6372340dbbd9616939125c680fbec5291046db0d73d6e88db85'
             'e05cf76f5980b5a44c35dd812afafde262a53a00fc9fa89bcbca68e26a8edb16')
 
 package() {

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 09:11:25	Medium	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
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