mendeley-reference-manager

maintainer chiwanpark · 12 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the official vendor's static domain (mendeley.com), which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; while the host is not a common whitelist entry, it is not inherently untrustworthy, and the AppImage is from the official vendor, reducing supply-chain risk.

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 official vendor's static domain (mendeley.com), which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; while the host is not a common whitelist entry, it is not inherently untrustworthy, and the AppImage is from the official vendor, reducing supply-chain risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=(https://static.mendeley.com/bin/desktop/${_file})

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Chiwan Park <chiwanpark@hotmail.com>
    
      2pkgname='mendeley-reference-manager'
    
      3pkgver=2.148.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc='Mendeley Reference Manager'
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7depends=('harfbuzz' 'libgl' 'libxss')
    
      8url='https://www.mendeley.com/download-reference-manager'
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10
    
      11_file=mendeley-reference-manager-${pkgver}-x86_64.AppImage
    
      12source=(https://static.mendeley.com/bin/desktop/${_file})
    
      13sha256sums=('65e8e95f2ab920b96fa6905f8fe176cc7849ddd2c9c86942607265348482492b')
    
      14
    
      15options=('!strip')
    
      16
    
      17prepare() {
    
      18  # Extract AppImage contents so we install bypassing every and all AppImage
    
      19  # desktop integration/deployment mechanisms
    
      20  chmod +x "${_file}"
    
      21  "./${_file}" --appimage-extract &>/dev/null
    
      22}
    
      23
    
      24package() {
    
      25  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/
    
      26  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/local/mendeley-reference-manager/
    
      27  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/
    
      28  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/
    
      29
    
      30  install -m644 squashfs-root/mendeley-reference-manager.png "$pkgdir"/usr/share/icons/
    
      31
    
      32  sed -i 's%Exec=AppRun%Exec=/usr/bin/mendeley-reference-manager%g' squashfs-root/mendeley-reference-manager.desktop
    
      33  install -m644 squashfs-root/mendeley-reference-manager.desktop "$pkgdir"/usr/share/applications/
    
      34
    
      35  find squashfs-root -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      36  mv squashfs-root/* "$pkgdir"/usr/local/mendeley-reference-manager/
    
      37  ln -s /usr/local/mendeley-reference-manager/mendeley-reference-manager "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/mendeley-reference-manager
    
      38}
    
      39

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