ucsc-liftover-bin

maintainer imjiaoyuan · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-18 00:03:42.021799

LOW

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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      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

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 17:37:55	LOW	3
2026-08-16 17:33:23	MEDIUM	2