papirus-paleorange-icon-theme

LOW

maintainer tsbarnes 0 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt icon theme tarball from Dropbox. While Dropbox is not an official distribution channel, this is a common pattern for AUR packages hosting assets on personal file-sharing services. The content is pure icon/image data (an icon theme), not an executed binary or compiled code — it is installed as static files under /usr/share/icons. The md5sums checksum is provided (though MD5 is weak, it still provides basic integrity verification). There is no code execution of the downloaded content. The risk is low: if the Dropbox link were replaced, the checksum would catch it. The main concern is link rot or checksum weakness, not active supply-chain attack. This is sloppy packaging (unofficial host, weak hash, unknown license) but not a meaningful security risk.

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 82%): The package downloads a prebuilt icon theme tarball from Dropbox. While Dropbox is not an official distribution channel, this is a common pattern for AUR packages hosting assets on personal file-sharing services. The content is pure icon/image data (an icon theme), not an executed binary or compiled code — it is installed as static files under /usr/share/icons. The md5sums checksum is provided (though MD5 is weak, it still provides basic integrity verification). There is no code execution of the downloaded content. The risk is low: if the Dropbox link were replaced, the checksum would catch it. The main concern is link rot or checksum weakness, not active supply-chain attack. This is sloppy packaging (unofficial host, weak hash, unknown license) but not a meaningful security 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:18 source=("https://www.dropbox.com/s/eyv26chd3qew1ir/Papirus-Paleorange_20210802.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# This is an example PKGBUILD file. Use this as a start to creating your own,
    
      2# and remove these comments. For more information, see 'man PKGBUILD'.
    
      3# NOTE: Please fill out the license field for your package! If it is unknown,
    
      4# then please put 'unknown'.
    
      5
    
      6# Maintainer: Your Name <youremail@domain.com>
    
      7pkgname=papirus-paleorange-icon-theme
    
      8pkgver=20210802
    
      9pkgrel=1
    
      10pkgdesc="Papirus-Paleorange icon theme"
    
      11arch=('any')
    
      12url="https://www.pling.com/p/1549558"
    
      13license=('Unknown')
    
      14makedepends=('gtk-update-icon-cache')
    
      15provides=("${pkgname}")
    
      16conflicts=("${pkgname}" "${pkgname}-git")
    
      17options=('!strip')
    
      18source=("https://www.dropbox.com/s/eyv26chd3qew1ir/Papirus-Paleorange_20210802.tar.gz")
    
      19md5sums=("cc11c414778ee2e798c20a23c223ff7c")
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22	mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons"
    
      23	cp -r Papirus-Paleorange "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/"
    
      24}
    
      25

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2