gisto

LOW

maintainer carolinedroz 14 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

broken

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Why flagged

The PKGBUILD is non-functional: the package() function unconditionally calls 'exit 1', making it impossible to install anything. The source is fetched from the official GitHub repository (github.com/gisto/gisto) with a b2sum checksum. The npm ci in prepare() installs dependencies from the project's own package-lock.json, and npx electron-builder resolves from the locally installed node_modules (not a remote fetch). The --publish=always flag is an electron-builder option for publishing releases, not malicious. No obfuscation, no exfiltration, no payload execution. This is simply an incomplete/abandoned PKGBUILD. The cheaper model's HIGH rating was a false positive; the only real issue is that it's broken and never finished.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this HIGH, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The PKGBUILD is non-functional: the package() function unconditionally calls 'exit 1', making it impossible to install anything. The source is fetched from the official GitHub repository (github.com/gisto/gisto) with a b2sum checksum. The npm ci in prepare() installs dependencies from the project's own package-lock.json, and npx electron-builder resolves from the locally installed node_modules (not a remote fetch). The --publish=always flag is an electron-builder option for publishing releases, not malicious. No obfuscation, no exfiltration, no payload execution. This is simply an incomplete/abandoned PKGBUILD. The cheaper model's HIGH rating was a false positive; the only real issue is that it's broken and never finished.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

High npx/bunx/deno executes a remote package remote_code_tool

`npx`/`bunx`/`pnpm dlx`/`deno run <url>` downloads AND runs a remote package at build time — the moral equivalent of piping a download into a shell.

PKGBUILD:30 npx electron-builder build --linux pacman --x64 --publish=always

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: @RubenKelevra <cyrond@gmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: Sasha Khamkov <sanusart@gmail.com>
    
      3# Contributor: xgdgsc <xgdgsc at gmail dot com>
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=gisto
    
      6_pkgname_capital=Gisto
    
      7pkgver=1.13.4
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc='Gisto is a code snippet manager that runs on GitHub Gists and adds additional features such as searching, tagging and sharing gists while including a rich code editor.'
    
      10arch=('x86_64')
    
      11url="https://github.com/$pkgname/$pkgname"
    
      12license=('MIT')
    
      13builddepends=(npm)
    
      14depends=(c-ares ffmpeg gtk3 http-parser libevent libvpx libxslt libxss minizip nss re2 snappy libnotify)
    
      15install=${pkgname}.install
    
      16
    
      17source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/refs/tags/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
    
      18
    
      19b2sums=('532c4c519eccef3f049db277c569761594a407863b0db340ca2fbe3c35f67100f932beaf60a8db062cce6ca7c6ee44b8cba73e12321f0e14fd8ed435331fe6a0')
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22	cd "$_pkgname_capital-$pkgver"
    
      23	npm ci --no-audit --progress=false --cache "$srcdir/npm-cache"	
    
      24
    
      25}
    
      26
    
      27build() {
    
      28	cd "$_pkgname_capital-$pkgver"
    
      29	cross-env NODE_ENV=production npm run start:prod
    
      30        npx electron-builder build --linux pacman --x64 --publish=always
    
      31}
    
      32
    
      33
    
      34check() {
    
      35	cd "$_pkgname_capital-$pkgver"
    
      36	npm run test
    
      37}
    
      38
    
      39
    
      40package() {
    
      41	exit 1
    
      42}
    
      43

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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
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
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2