gams

MEDIUM

maintainer dybdeskarphet 4 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt executable installer from a CloudFront CDN URL, which is an unverifiable, swappable host; if compromised, it could deliver malicious code during installation.

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 90%): The package downloads a prebuilt executable installer from a CloudFront CDN URL, which is an unverifiable, swappable host; if compromised, it could deliver malicious code during installation.

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=54.6.1
    
      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=('ac198c6262ec781b351336f4fa7fe7afe3316c5db5c0593ea2d4e7579fd34eb1'
    
      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 @ 2026-10-28 00:06
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Contributor: Peter Reschenhofer <peterreschenhofer at gmail dot com>
 
 pkgname=gams
-pkgver=54.6.0
+pkgver=54.6.1
 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=('96e097051ab0735ac5010a5faf7ce35f8377cea9c1fa0ce64a55f1099a65679c'
+sha256sums=('ac198c6262ec781b351336f4fa7fe7afe3316c5db5c0593ea2d4e7579fd34eb1'
             'e05cf76f5980b5a44c35dd812afafde262a53a00fc9fa89bcbca68e26a8edb16')
 
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Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 09:50:05	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 09:15:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2