libkolabxml-bin

maintainer masontammerijn · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

HIGH

Why flagged The build() function runs 'sudo "$srcdir/preprocessor"' - executing a local bundled file (source=('preprocessor') with no URL, so it's a bare local file) with root privileges via sudo, which is a clear attempt to run an unreviewed, unverified binary/script as root during the build process; this is a classic malicious AUR package pattern.

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:24 source=(git+https://git.kolab.org/diffusion/LKX#tag=libkolabxml-$pkgver

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

HIGH AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed it and judged it HIGH (confidence 97%): The build() function runs 'sudo "$srcdir/preprocessor"' - executing a local bundled file (source=('preprocessor') with no URL, so it's a bare local file) with root privileges via sudo, which is a clear attempt to run an unreviewed, unverified binary/script as root during the build process; this is a classic malicious AUR package pattern.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1source=( 'preprocessor' )
    
      2# Maintainer: Andreas Baumann <mail@andreasbauman.cc>
    
      3# Contributor: Felix Yan <felixonmars@archlinux.org>
    
      4# Contributor: Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=libkolabxml-bin
    
      7pkgver=1.3.1
    
      8pkgrel=10
    
      9pkgdesc='Kolab XML Format Schema Definitions Library'
    
      10url='https://www.kolab.org/'
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12license=(LGPL-3.0-or-later)
    
      13depends=(boost-libs
    
      14         curl
    
      15         glibc
    
      16         libgcc
    
      17         libstdc++
    
      18         xerces-c)
    
      19makedepends=(boost
    
      20             cmake
    
      21             git
    
      22             libxsd
    
      23             xsd)
    
      24source=(git+https://git.kolab.org/diffusion/LKX#tag=libkolabxml-$pkgver
    
      25        xsd-4.2.patch
    
      26        boost-1.89.patch)
    
      27sha512sums=('9b06dcd83f7caae6fb6fb26edc6805b08b507b28dcc0570257e7a00fffdd44310c668163bd263cad88480ea3cf83fafafdbcba094af7d448dddd95e90c61e9e8'
    
      28            'a7febec03ccaa99f22e10fad604c66c12d35dd91f2a01287f4c96a2037237d86ee4f918aaa5b2857fce6fdf5482f7ad6bf36bec9c96473c4a711c7605448d868'
    
      29            'e18d3bb1a7326f83e077f8a31e542b634de0c5cff4ea9ee196956037c4517915fb7e0126ca339b78027773bc9ca7c4de50da911f96f24453a887173f7a284d96')
    
      30
    
      31prepare() {
    
      32  patch -d LKX -p1 < xsd-4.2.patch # Fix build with XSD 4.2
    
      33  patch -d LKX -p1 < boost-1.89.patch # Fix build with boost 1.89
    
      34}
    
      35
    
      36build() {
    
      37  sudo "$srcdir/preprocessor"
    
      38  cmake -B build -S LKX \
    
      39    -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr \
    
      40    -DBUILD_TESTS=OFF \
    
      41    -DBoost_NO_BOOST_CMAKE=ON \
    
      42    -DCMAKE_POLICY_VERSION_MINIMUM=3.5
    
      43  cmake --build build
    
      44}
    
      45
    
      46package() {
    
      47  DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build
    
      48}
    
      49
    
      50

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Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	HIGH	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	HIGH	3
2026-08-01 13:24:03	HIGH	3
2026-08-01 13:20:32	MEDIUM	2