ucsc-liftover-bin

LOW
maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-10-02 00:00:32.890515
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Why flagged

Prebuilt binary downloaded directly from UCSC's official genomics infrastructure (hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu), which is the project's own authoritative distribution host, with a pinned sha256 checksum; the only concern is that it's a prebuilt executable rather than source-built, but the source is the official vendor domain, not an unrelated swappable host.

Triggered rules

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 80%): Prebuilt binary downloaded directly from UCSC's official genomics infrastructure (hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu), which is the project's own authoritative distribution host, with a pinned sha256 checksum; the only concern is that it's a prebuilt executable rather than source-built, but the source is the official vendor domain, not an unrelated swappable host.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source=("https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/liftOver"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: imjiaoyuan <imjiaoyuan@gmail.com>
2
3# Prebuilt UCSC Genome Browser binary. Upstream files are unversioned, so
4# pkgver is the HTTP Last-Modified date (YYYYMMDD) of the binary.
5
6pkgname=ucsc-liftover-bin
7pkgver=20250627
8pkgrel=1
9pkgdesc="UCSC liftOver: converts genome coordinates between assemblies"
10arch=('x86_64')
11url="https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/"
12license=('MIT')
13depends=('glibc' 'curl' 'gcc-libs')
14options=('!strip' '!debug')
15source=("https://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/linux.x86_64/liftOver"
16 "LICENSE::https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ucscGenomeBrowser/kent/master/LICENSE")
17sha256sums=('b7e295f3e06186ab34c89b2abdc58e98e55ac5aa158db4df1c6292b023a272bd'
18 '793d774ec3941d88d5f93611639230030ea3e167282be144b6e5604bc5ad29a4')
19
20package() {
21 install -Dm755 "$srcdir/liftOver" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/liftOver"
22 install -Dm644 "$srcdir/LICENSE" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE"
23}
24

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2026-09-30 00:20:07 Low 2
2026-09-29 00:07:46 Low 2
2026-09-28 00:28:32 Low 2
2026-09-27 00:07:07 Low 2
2026-09-26 00:12:15 Low 2
2026-09-25 00:03:36 Low 2
2026-09-24 00:24:14 Low 2
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2026-09-22 00:15:14 Low 2
2026-09-21 00:26:32 Low 2
2026-09-20 00:25:31 Low 2
2026-09-19 00:25:36 Low 2
2026-09-18 00:17:11 Low 2
2026-09-17 00:27:14 Low 2
2026-09-16 00:03:17 Low 2
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