helixnotes-appimage-bin

maintainer ArkHost · 3 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official domain (download.helixnotes.com), which is a standard practice for AppImage distribution; the source is not obfuscated, and the checksum is provided, reducing supply-chain risk 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 a standard practice for AppImage distribution; the source is not obfuscated, and the checksum is provided, reducing supply-chain risk 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Yuri Karamian <yuri@arkhost.com>
    
      2pkgname=helixnotes-appimage-bin
    
      3_pkgname=HelixNotes
    
      4pkgver=1.3.4
    
      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=('b4634e172f7a3b6f61bc57264381dd75697b90cb099ecd60f2db26cea1f8bbff'
    
      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

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-24 00:02
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Yuri Karamian <yuri@arkhost.com>
 pkgname=helixnotes-appimage-bin
 _pkgname=HelixNotes
-pkgver=1.3.3
+pkgver=1.3.4
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Local markdown note-taking app built with Rust, Tauri, and SvelteKit"
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 options=('!strip')
 source=("${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage::https://download.helixnotes.com/releases/v${pkgver}/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage"
         "helixnotes.desktop")
-sha256sums=('2b056c46d21221ef6b8426b0860838fe5e002f02ce9ef576983961fc9ad9eded'
+sha256sums=('b4634e172f7a3b6f61bc57264381dd75697b90cb099ecd60f2db26cea1f8bbff'
             '48f71a140951aa15b99defae687ee8e9462de44847fdf961dfafa1c2ef519856')
 noextract=("${_pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.AppImage")
 

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 21:28:26	MEDIUM	1
2026-07-24 00:02:28	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	MEDIUM	2