helixnotes-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer krishn 1 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted, project-unrelated domain (helixnotes.com), which hosts an executable binary; if compromised, this could deliver malicious code, constituting a supply-chain risk.

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:27 source=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::https://download.helixnotes.com/releases/v${pkgver}/HelixNotes_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-whitelisted, project-unrelated domain (helixnotes.com), which hosts an executable binary; if compromised, this could deliver malicious code, constituting a supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Omansh Krishn omansh@duck.com
    
      2
    
      3_pkgname=helixnotes
    
      4pkgname=${_pkgname}-bin
    
      5pkgver=1.3.5
    
      6pkgrel=1
    
      7pkgdesc='A local, open-source Markdown note-taking app. No cloud, no account, no telemetry. (deb version)'
    
      8arch=('x86_64')
    
      9url='https://gitlab.com/ArkHost/HelixNotes'
    
      10license=('AGPL3')
    
      11depends=(
    
      12    'gtk3'
    
      13    'webkit2gtk-4.1'
    
      14    'libsoup3'
    
      15    'glib2'
    
      16    'cairo'
    
      17    'gdk-pixbuf2'
    
      18    'gcc-libs'
    
      19    'glibc'
    
      20    'libsecret'
    
      21    'libdrm'
    
      22)
    
      23provides=("${_pkgname}" "${_pkgname}=${pkgver}")
    
      24conflicts=("${_pkgname}" "helixnotes-appimage-bin")
    
      25options=(!debug)
    
      26
    
      27source=("${_pkgname}-${pkgver}-x86_64.deb::https://download.helixnotes.com/releases/v${pkgver}/HelixNotes_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      28sha256sums=('01966095b442aff81d9040a3c950d7affee9f67982bc8efa4341566a061efa06')
    
      29
    
      30package() {
    
      31
    
      32  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      33  tar -xzf "${srcdir}/data.tar.gz"
    
      34  
    
      35  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      36  install -m755  "${srcdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
    
      37
    
      38
    
      39  for size in 32x32 128x128 256x256@2; do
    
      40    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps"
    
      41    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps/${_pkgname}.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${size}/apps/${_pkgname}.png"
    
      42  done
    
      43
    
      44  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      45  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/usr/share/applications/HelixNotes.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      46
    
      47}
    
      48

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2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	2