open-design-git

maintainer motherofmilk · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The npx command is used to run a specific, version-pinned version of pnpm (10.33.2) to install dependencies and build an AppImage from the project's own source; this is a standard build practice and does not execute arbitrary remote code.

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 npx command is used to run a specific, version-pinned version of pnpm (10.33.2) to install dependencies and build an AppImage from the project's own source; this is a standard build practice and does not execute arbitrary remote code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM npx/bunx/deno executes a remote package remote_code_tool

`npx`/`bunx`/`pnpm dlx`/`deno run <url>` downloads AND runs a remote package at build time — the moral equivalent of piping a download into a shell. Severity downgraded: Node.js consumer context.

PKGBUILD:37 _pnpm() { npx --yes pnpm@10.33.2 "$@"; }

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: motherofmilk <iulian.dita@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=open-design-git
    
      4pkgver=0.5.0.r356.g2bb029cb
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='VCS build of Open Design installed from an extracted Linux AppImage AppDir'
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url='https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design'
    
      9license=('Apache-2.0')
    
      10depends=('alsa-lib' 'gtk3' 'libnotify' 'libxss' 'libxtst' 'nss' 'xdg-utils')
    
      11makedepends=('git' 'npm' 'python' 'make' 'gcc')
    
      12provides=('open-design')
    
      13conflicts=('open-design' 'open-design-bin')
    
      14options=('!strip')
    
      15source=("${pkgname}::git+https://github.com/nexu-io/open-design.git#branch=main" 'open-design' 'open-design.desktop')
    
      16sha256sums=('SKIP'
    
      17            '8c076f4471bc20f457effb61c847ae1e80eb7861638a5b78f65613179ff39311'
    
      18            '0245ea0484c1bb89b74093abc3c77ce421e793dd06c5a8e36c203971bfd7f919')
    
      19
    
      20prepare() {
    
      21  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}"
    
      22  git clean -fdx
    
      23}
    
      24
    
      25pkgver() {
    
      26  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}"
    
      27  local _version _rev _commit
    
      28  _version="$(sed -n 's/^  "version": "\([^"]*\)",$/\1/p' package.json | head -n1)"
    
      29  _rev="$(git rev-list --count HEAD)"
    
      30  _commit="$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
    
      31  printf '%s.r%s.g%s' "${_version}" "${_rev}" "${_commit}"
    
      32}
    
      33
    
      34build() {
    
      35  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}"
    
      36
    
      37  _pnpm() { npx --yes pnpm@10.33.2 "$@"; }
    
      38
    
      39  _pnpm install --frozen-lockfile
    
      40  # Build upstream's Linux AppImage locally; the released Linux artifact is not published yet.
    
      41  _pnpm tools-pack linux build --to appimage --namespace aur --portable --dir "${srcdir}/tools-pack"
    
      42}
    
      43
    
      44package() {
    
      45  cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}"
    
      46  local _appimage _extract_dir
    
      47  _appimage="$(find "${srcdir}/tools-pack/out/linux/namespaces/aur/builder" -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.AppImage' -print -quit)"
    
      48  if [[ -z "${_appimage}" ]]; then
    
      49    echo "no AppImage found under ${srcdir}/tools-pack/out/linux/namespaces/aur/builder" >&2
    
      50    return 1
    
      51  fi
    
      52
    
      53  _extract_dir="${srcdir}/open-design-appdir"
    
      54  rm -rf "${_extract_dir}"
    
      55  mkdir -p "${_extract_dir}"
    
      56  (cd "${_extract_dir}" && "${_appimage}" --appimage-extract > /dev/null)
    
      57
    
      58  mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/opt/open-design/appdir"
    
      59  cp -a "${_extract_dir}/squashfs-root/." "${pkgdir}/opt/open-design/appdir/"
    
      60  chmod -R u+rwX,go+rX "${pkgdir}/opt/open-design/appdir"
    
      61  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/open-design" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/open-design"
    
      62  install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/open-design.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/open-design.desktop"
    
      63  install -Dm644 tools/pack/resources/linux/icon.png "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/open-design.png"
    
      64  install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      65}
    
      66

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