neo4j-desktop

maintainer nglgzz · 7 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the official neo4j.com domain via a parameterized URL, which is a standard release mechanism for Neo4j Desktop; the AppImage is extracted and repackaged safely, with no obfuscated code or remote execution beyond the official vendor's release.

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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the official neo4j.com domain via a parameterized URL, which is a standard release mechanism for Neo4j Desktop; the AppImage is extracted and repackaged safely, with no obfuscated code or remote execution beyond the official vendor's release.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 source=("${_appimage}::https://neo4j.com/artifact.php?name=${_appimage}")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Angelo Gazzola <(firstname) @ nglgzz.com>
    
      2pkgname=neo4j-desktop
    
      3pkgver=2.2.0
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="GUI for managing local and remote Neo4j Graph databases"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url=http://neo4j.org/
    
      8license=(custom)
    
      9makedepends=('imagemagick')
    
      10depends=('fuse')
    
      11optdepends=('gnome-keyring: Adds support for storing secrets')
    
      12options=(!strip)
    
      13_appimage="${pkgname}-offline-${pkgver}-${CARCH}.AppImage"
    
      14source=("${_appimage}::https://neo4j.com/artifact.php?name=${_appimage}")
    
      15noextract=("${_appimage}")
    
      16md5sums=('decc76a0166a69669f26d726ccd9a66d')
    
      17
    
      18prepare() {
    
      19    chmod +x "${_appimage}"
    
      20    ./"${_appimage}" --appimage-extract
    
      21}
    
      22
    
      23build() {
    
      24    # Adjust .desktop so it will work outside AppImage container.
    
      25    # Also force electron to use x11, as otherwise the main window is not opening (at least on wayland).
    
      26    sed -i -E "s|Exec=AppRun|Exec=/usr/bin/${pkgname} --ozone-platform=x11|" "squashfs-root/${pkgname}.desktop" \
    
      27        "squashfs-root/${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      28
    
      29    # The AppImage contains only an icon of size 1024x1024, so
    
      30    # we need to generate the other icons for it to show
    
      31    # consistently in the UI.
    
      32    icons_dir="squashfs-root/usr/share/icons/hicolor"
    
      33    src_icon="${icons_dir}/1024x1024/apps/${pkgname}.png"
    
      34
    
      35    for size in 16 32 48 64 128 256 512; do
    
      36      mkdir -p "${icons_dir}/${size}x${size}/apps/"
    
      37      magick "$src_icon" -resize "${size}x${size}" "${icons_dir}/${size}x${size}/apps/${pkgname}.png"
    
      38    done
    
      39
    
      40    # Fix permissions; .AppImage permissions are 700 for all directories
    
      41    chmod -R a-x+rX squashfs-root/usr
    
      42}
    
      43
    
      44package() {
    
      45    # AppImage
    
      46    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${_appimage}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage"
    
      47    # install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/LICENSE"
    
      48
    
      49    # Desktop file
    
      50    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/${pkgname}.desktop" \
    
      51        "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
    
      52
    
      53    # Icon images
    
      54    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
    
      55    cp -a "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
    
      56
    
      57    # Symlink executable
    
      58    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      59    ln -n "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
    
      60}
    
      61

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 00:09:25	LOW	2