plotxy

LOW
maintainer dbarbosa0 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a university-hosted domain that is plausibly the author's official site; while the host is not whitelisted, the source is verifiable via checksum and the AppImage is from the project's legitimate origin, 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 prebuilt AppImage from a university-hosted domain that is plausibly the author's official site; while the host is not whitelisted, the source is verifiable via checksum and the AppImage is from the project's legitimate origin, 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:12 source=(http://ceraolo-plotxy.ing.unipi.it/PlotXY_Download/PlotXY-2018-Nov-Linux.zip)

PKGBUILD

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1# Maintainer: Daniel Barbosa <dbarbosa0 at gmail dot com>
2
3pkgname=plotxy
4pkgver=nov2018
5pkgrel=2
6pkgdesc="A plotting and post-processing program developed by prof. Massimo Ceraolo from the University of Pisa, as part of his research activities involving simulation and post-processing of measured data"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="http://ceraolo-plotxy.ing.unipi.it/default.htm"
9license=(GPL3)
10depends=(qt5-svg)
11conflicts=()
12source=(http://ceraolo-plotxy.ing.unipi.it/PlotXY_Download/PlotXY-2018-Nov-Linux.zip)
13sha256sums=('62876fb6329de24a09c7088ef70976ec726d409041cfa9c28d163b8483df1306')
14
15package() {
16
17 cd "$srcdir"/PlotXY-2018-Nov-Linux
18 chmod +x PlotXY.AppImage
19 ./PlotXY.AppImage --appimage-extract
20 cd squashfs-root
21 install -d "$pkgdir"/opt/$pkgname
22 cp PlotXY "$pkgdir"/opt/$pkgname
23 install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/local/bin/
24
25
26 install -Dm644 "${startdir}/plotxy.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/plotxy.desktop"
27 install -Dm644 "${startdir}/plotxy.png" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/plotxy.png"
28 install -Dm755 "${startdir}/plotxy" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}"
29
30 ln -s /opt/$pkgname/plotxy "$pkgdir"/usr/local/bin/plotxy
31
32}
33
34

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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
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2026-09-01 00:11:19 Low 2
2026-08-31 00:19:57 Low 2
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