nvflash

LOW
maintainer C0rn3j 13 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a source archive from techpowerup.com, a well-known and trusted hardware website, to build a legitimate firmware tool; the host is non-whitelisted but plausibly official, and the source is verified via a fixed sha256sum, making the risk low despite the non-standard host flag.

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 techpowerup.com, a well-known and trusted hardware website, to build a legitimate firmware tool; the host is non-whitelisted but plausibly official, and the source is verified via a fixed sha256sum, making the risk low despite the non-standard host flag.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:8 url="https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-nvflash/"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Martin Rys <https://rys.rs/contact>
2# Contributor: Jonatan Holmgren <jonatan at jontes dot page>
3# Contributor: Shayne Hartford<shayneehartford@gmail.com>
4pkgname=nvflash
5pkgver=5.867
6pkgrel=4
7pkgdesc="A tool to update the the firmware of Nvidia display adapters"
8url="https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-nvflash/"
9arch=('x86_64' 'i686' 'aarch64')
10license=('unknown')
11depends=('glibc')
12makedepends=('curl' 'unzip')
13# id == filename
14# server_id == server to download from
15DLAGENTS=(
16 #"https::/usr/bin/wget --method POST --header 'content-type:\ application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --body-data id=2807&server_id=27 -O %o %u"
17 "https::/usr/bin/curl -L -A 'NVFlash\ AUR\ Package\ Builder\ ${pkgver}-${pkgrel}' -e %u --header 'Content-Type:\ application/x-www-form-urlencoded' --data-raw id=2807&server_id=27 -o %o %u"
18)
19source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.techpowerup.com/download/nvidia-nvflash/")
20sha256sums=('73ab51e121129059f1377b3bf21a8001f6649d64af2471455499c803a9c80301')
21
22package() {
23 subd=$(echo "${arch}" | sed -e 's/x86_64/x64/' -e 's/i686/x32/')
24 install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${subd}/${pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}"
25}
26

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