nkit

maintainer gee · 8 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a source archive from a non-whitelisted but plausibly project-related host (gbatemp.net), which is a community forum hosting the official release; the content is a prebuilt .NET executable, but it is not obfuscated or dynamically fetched at runtime, and the build process only installs and wraps it with a launcher script, posing low 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-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a source archive from a non-whitelisted but plausibly project-related host (gbatemp.net), which is a community forum hosting the official release; the content is a prebuilt .NET executable, but it is not obfuscated or dynamically fetched at runtime, and the build process only installs and wraps it with a launcher script, posing low 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=("nkit-$pkgver.zip::https://gbatemp.net/download/nkit.36157/download?version=36607")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: gee
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=nkit
    
      4pkgver=1.4
    
      5pkgrel=4
    
      6pkgdesc='A Nintendo ToolKit that can Recover and Preserve Wii and GameCube disc images'
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url='http://wiki.gbatemp.net/wiki/NKit'
    
      9license=('MIT')
    
      10depends=('mono')
    
      11makedepends=('wget')
    
      12_referer='https://gbatemp.net/download/nkit.36157/'
    
      13_useragent="Mozilla"
    
      14DLAGENTS=("https::/usr/bin/wget -O %o -U ${_useragent} --referer ${_referer// /\\ } %u")
    
      15source=("nkit-$pkgver.zip::https://gbatemp.net/download/nkit.36157/download?version=36607")
    
      16sha256sums=('e600b0a2dbacf784779ce33b01259f197c5f8cfc7135f1831160d3f98bb431c6')
    
      17
    
      18prepare() {
    
      19  cd "${srcdir}"
    
      20  sed -i 's|%exe\\Processed|~/.local/share/NKit/Processed|' NKit.dll.config
    
      21  sed -i 's|%exe\\Recovery|~/.local/share/NKit/Recovery|' NKit.dll.config
    
      22  sed -i 's|%exe\\Dats|~/.local/share/NKit/Dats|' NKit.dll.config
    
      23  sed -i 's|key="WaitForKeyAfterProcessing" value="true"|key="WaitForKeyAfterProcessing" value="false"|' NKit.dll.config
    
      24  sed -i 's|key="NkitFormat" value="gcz"|key="NkitFormat" value="iso"|' NKit.dll.config
    
      25  sed -i 's|key="MaskRename" value="true"|key="MaskRename" value="false"|' NKit.dll.config
    
      26}
    
      27
    
      28package() {
    
      29  install -m755  -d "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nkit"
    
      30  mv "${srcdir}"/* "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nkit/"
    
      31  rm "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nkit/nkit-$pkgver.zip"
    
      32  cd "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/nkit"
    
      33  install -m755 -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      34  for exe in *exe;
    
      35  do
    
      36    echo "#!/usr/bin/bash" > "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${exe:0:-4}"
    
      37    echo "" >> "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${exe:0:-4}"
    
      38    echo "mono /usr/lib/nkit/$exe \"\$@\"" >> "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${exe:0:-4}"
    
      39    chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${exe:0:-4}"
    
      40  done
    
      41}
    
      42

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