night-diamond-cursor-theme

LOW

maintainer scan 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

This PKGBUILD installs a cursor theme (pure data: cursor images and metadata files) from a Dropbox link. Cursor themes are non-executable data assets placed under /usr/share/icons — they are never executed by the system. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates silent replacement risk to some degree. While Dropbox is not an official/canonical upstream host and the link could theoretically be replaced, the content itself (cursor theme files) poses no code-execution risk regardless of origin. The cheaper model correctly identified the non-standard host but over-rated the risk: pure icon/cursor data from an unofficial host is a low concern, not medium. The main real concern is that Dropbox shared links can expire or be replaced, making this fragile, but that is a packaging quality issue rather than a security threat.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-4.6-sonnet-20260217) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 85%): This PKGBUILD installs a cursor theme (pure data: cursor images and metadata files) from a Dropbox link. Cursor themes are non-executable data assets placed under /usr/share/icons — they are never executed by the system. The sha256sum is pinned, which mitigates silent replacement risk to some degree. While Dropbox is not an official/canonical upstream host and the link could theoretically be replaced, the content itself (cursor theme files) poses no code-execution risk regardless of origin. The cheaper model correctly identified the non-standard host but over-rated the risk: pure icon/cursor data from an unofficial host is a low concern, not medium. The main real concern is that Dropbox shared links can expire or be replaced, making this fragile, but that is a packaging quality issue rather than a security threat.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:9 source=("night-diamond.tar.gz::https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t8sgcrdoirfu618n5wp9b/Night-Diamond-v3.0.tar.xz?rlkey=bq2mqzr3u064ms85zt0gin7nq")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: scan
    
      2pkgname=night-diamond-cursor-theme
    
      3pkgver=3.0
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc="Night Diamond Cursor Theme (Blue/Red)."
    
      6arch=('any')
    
      7url="https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1295073"
    
      8license=('GPL')
    
      9source=("night-diamond.tar.gz::https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t8sgcrdoirfu618n5wp9b/Night-Diamond-v3.0.tar.xz?rlkey=bq2mqzr3u064ms85zt0gin7nq")
    
      10sha256sums=('5e7ead5975521718de6c3bd707def51068af2f8061fff68a320cf4284135237e')
    
      11
    
      12package() {
    
      13	mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/icons
    
      14	cp -r Night-Diamond/* $pkgdir/usr/share/icons
    
      15}
    
      16

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2