thorspec

LOW

maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a legitimate Thorlabs software installer from the vendor's official domain and extracts firmware files; the build process runs a disclosed Python script to convert firmware and compiles a helper tool from source, posing no remote code execution or 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 legitimate Thorlabs software installer from the vendor's official domain and extracts firmware files; the build process runs a disclosed Python script to convert firmware and compiles a helper tool from source, posing no remote code execution or 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:14 source=(setupblob_${pkgver}.exe::"https://www.thorlabs.com/software/THO/OSA/${_dlver}/ThorlabsOSASW_Full_setup.exe" "cyusb-fw-extract-py2.py" "80-spectrometer.rules" "https://github.com/greyltc/thorspec/archive/${_cver}.tar.gz")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Grey Christoforo <first name at last name dot net>
    
      2pkgname=thorspec
    
      3pkgver=2.8.0
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc="Driver for Thorlabs spectrometers"
    
      6arch=('any')
    
      7url="https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=3482&pn=CCS175/M"
    
      8license=('custom')
    
      9depends=('gnuplot')
    
      10makedepends=('innoextract' 'python2')
    
      11_dlver=${pkgver//./}
    
      12_dlver=V${_dlver::1}_${_dlver: -2}
    
      13_cver=0.1
    
      14source=(setupblob_${pkgver}.exe::"https://www.thorlabs.com/software/THO/OSA/${_dlver}/ThorlabsOSASW_Full_setup.exe" "cyusb-fw-extract-py2.py" "80-spectrometer.rules" "https://github.com/greyltc/thorspec/archive/${_cver}.tar.gz")
    
      15noextract=("setupblob_${pkgver}")
    
      16md5sums=('1301c516d4bd64aa348a9936ea8ee4ab'
    
      17         '793c35c7b9b08baa950a63564dfb782f'
    
      18         '7083e7b40cbd3095640d227190cdd08d'
    
      19         '33ced3a70111e0fcffea26b780df2a48')
    
      20
    
      21
    
      22_firmware_loc="app/CCS/inf/Loader"
    
      23
    
      24prepare() {
    
      25  # extract the installer 
    
      26  innoextract setupblob_${pkgver}.exe
    
      27}
    
      28
    
      29build() {
    
      30  # convert the firmwares
    
      31  _firmwares="$srcdir/${_firmware_loc}/*.spt"
    
      32  for firmware in $_firmwares
    
      33  do
    
      34    python2 cyusb-fw-extract-py2.py -o${firmware//.spt/} $firmware || true
    
      35  done
    
      36
    
      37  cd thorspec-${_cver}/build
    
      38  make
    
      39}
    
      40
    
      41
    
      42package() {
    
      43  _firmwares="$srcdir/${_firmware_loc}/*_2.ihx"
    
      44  for firmware in $_firmwares
    
      45  do
    
      46    install -D -m644 "${firmware}" "$pkgdir/usr/lib/firmware/$(basename ${firmware})"
    
      47  done
    
      48  install -D -m644 80-spectrometer.rules "$pkgdir/etc/udev/rules.d/80-spectrometer.rules"
    
      49
    
      50  install -D -m755 thorspec-${_cver}/build/thorspec "$pkgdir/usr/bin/thorspec"
    
      51}
    
      52

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
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
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2