secfesc

maintainer Dominiquini · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

Why flagged Package builds and installs its own source tarball from the project's GitHub repository using pip with --no-deps and --isolated flags; the pip install is of the local project directory (.), not an external package, so no external dependency is pulled at install time. The only concerns are that it's a low-vote, recently uploaded package from an unfamiliar project, but no obfuscation, exfiltration, or unverifiable prebuilt binaries are present.

Triggered rules

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 60%): Package builds and installs its own source tarball from the project's GitHub repository using pip with --no-deps and --isolated flags; the pip install is of the local project directory (.), not an external package, so no external dependency is pulled at install time. The only concerns are that it's a low-vote, recently uploaded package from an unfamiliar project, but no obfuscation, exfiltration, or unverifiable prebuilt binaries are present.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

MEDIUM pip install of an external package pip_install_external

`pip install <package>` fetches an unpinned package from PyPI at build time, outside source=() and makepkg's checksums.

PKGBUILD:25 PIP_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null pip install --isolated --root="${pkgdir}" --ignore-installed --no-warn-script-location --root-user-action ignore --no-deps .

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Rafael Dominiquini <rafaeldominiquini at gmail dot com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname="secfesc"
    
      4pkgver=1.7.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Lightweight security state inspector for Linux"
    
      7
    
      8license=('GPL-3.0')
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10
    
      11url="https://github.com/ake13-art/secfesc"
    
      12
    
      13provides=("${pkgname}")
    
      14
    
      15makedepends=('python-setuptools' 'python-wheel' 'python-build' 'python-installer' 'python-pip')
    
      16depends=('python')
    
      17
    
      18source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tgz::${url}/archive/refs/tags/v${pkgver}.tar.gz")
    
      19sha256sums=('20da6a5b0926655286c127ec9ad2f6c7bed99a949c5b2eadc1f776a022206374')
    
      20
    
      21
    
      22package() {
    
      23    cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/"
    
      24
    
      25    PIP_CONFIG_FILE=/dev/null pip install --isolated --root="${pkgdir}" --ignore-installed --no-warn-script-location --root-user-action ignore --no-deps .
    
      26
    
      27    python -O -m compileall "${pkgdir}"
    
      28}
    
      29

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-18 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-17 00:18:29	LOW	3
2026-08-16 00:03:42	LOW	3
2026-08-15 00:26:13	LOW	3
2026-08-14 00:03:41	LOW	3
2026-08-13 09:29:05	LOW	3
2026-08-13 09:26:10	MEDIUM	2