gams

maintainer dybdeskarphet · 4 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a self-extracting archive from GAMS's official CDN (CloudFront) hosting their own software; while the host is not whitelisted, it is plausibly official, and the package installs only the vendor's binaries and a desktop file without executing arbitrary remote code.

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 source is a self-extracting archive from GAMS's official CDN (CloudFront) hosting their own software; while the host is not whitelisted, it is plausibly official, and the package installs only the vendor's binaries and a desktop file without executing arbitrary remote code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.exe::https://d37drm4t2jghv5.cloudfront.net/distributions/$pkgver/linux/linux_x64_64_sfx.exe"

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=54.2.0
    
      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=('0177621225c510a79ba5f4658d9320718d08286f2b75d4254eaa0f875e0a06a0'
    
      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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	3
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	3
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	3
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	3
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	3
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	3