helixnotes-appimage-bin

LOW

maintainer ArkHost 3 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 domain (download.helixnotes.com), which is plausibly controlled by the project maintainers; while not on a standard forge, it is a dedicated release host for the software, and the checksum is verified, making the risk low despite the non-whitelisted host.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official domain (download.helixnotes.com), which is plausibly controlled by the project maintainers; while not on a standard forge, it is a dedicated release host for the software, and the checksum is verified, making the risk low despite the non-whitelisted host.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=("${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage::https://download.helixnotes.com/releases/v${pkgver}/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Yuri Karamian <yuri@arkhost.com>
    
      2pkgname=helixnotes-appimage-bin
    
      3_pkgname=HelixNotes
    
      4pkgver=1.3.5
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Local markdown note-taking app built with Rust, Tauri, and SvelteKit"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://helixnotes.com"
    
      9license=('AGPL-3.0-only')
    
      10depends=('fuse2' 'gtk3')
    
      11options=('!strip')
    
      12source=("${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage::https://download.helixnotes.com/releases/v${pkgver}/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage"
    
      13        "helixnotes.desktop")
    
      14sha256sums=('46fa5edb319592391d8ad7c00b9cf6b4f1eca012365340afd9aeec570c5665e9'
    
      15            '48f71a140951aa15b99defae687ee8e9462de44847fdf961dfafa1c2ef519856')
    
      16noextract=("${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage")
    
      17
    
      18prepare() {
    
      19    chmod +x "${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage"
    
      20    ./"${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage" --appimage-extract
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage" \
    
      25        "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/${_pkgname}.AppImage"
    
      26
    
      27    # Extract icon from squashfs-root if available
    
      28    if [ -f "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/"*.png ]; then
    
      29        install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/"*.png \
    
      30            "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/helixnotes.png"
    
      31    elif [ -f "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/"*.png ]; then
    
      32        install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/"*.png \
    
      33            "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/helixnotes.png"
    
      34    fi
    
      35
    
      36    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/helixnotes.desktop" \
    
      37        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/helixnotes.desktop"
    
      38
    
      39    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      40    ln -s "/opt/${pkgname}/${_pkgname}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/helixnotes"
    
      41}
    
      42

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