verapdf

LOW
maintainer Auerhuhn 8 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658
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Why flagged

The package downloads a source installer from the project's official domain (software.verapdf.org), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the build process unpacks and installs it locally without executing remote code or introducing untrusted binaries.

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 source installer from the project's official domain (software.verapdf.org), which is not on the whitelist but is plausibly legitimate; the build process unpacks and installs it locally without executing remote code or introducing untrusted binaries.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("https://software.verapdf.org/rel/${pkgver%.*}/${pkgname}-greenfield-${pkgver}-installer.zip"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Claudia Pellegrino <auerhuhn@archlinux.org>
2# Contributor: Holger Döbler <holger.doebler@posteo.de>
3pkgname=verapdf
4pkgver=1.30.2
5pkgrel=1
6epoch=
7pkgdesc="purpose-built, open source, file-format validator covering all PDF/A parts and conformance levels"
8arch=('any')
9url="https://verapdf.org/"
10license=('GPL-3.0-or-later OR MPL-2.0')
11groups=()
12depends=('java-runtime' 'bash')
13makedepends=('unzip')
14source=("https://software.verapdf.org/rel/${pkgver%.*}/${pkgname}-greenfield-${pkgver}-installer.zip"
15 "$pkgname.png::https://avatars1.githubusercontent.com/u/9946925?s=280&v=4"
16 "$pkgname.desktop"
17 "auto-install.xml")
18noextract=("${pkgname}-greenfield-${pkgver}-installer.zip" 'auto-install.sh')
19md5sums=('95bb27ee9f8d65e5fd45a10da7b063a7'
20 '076b23717ab675281ed53dcf84471b89'
21 'd84e22d0455afdf60816e182d66ce089'
22 '6181dcd94edaa03f9b5c615345d861cd')
23
24prepare() {
25 cd "${srcdir}"
26 unzip "${pkgname}-greenfield-${pkgver}-installer.zip"
27 sed -e "s;/usr/share/verapdf;${pkgdir}/usr/share/${pkgname};" < auto-install.xml > ${pkgname}-greenfield-${pkgver}/auto-install.xml
28}
29
30package() {
31 cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}-greenfield-${pkgver}"
32 ./${pkgname}-install auto-install.xml
33 rm "${pkgdir}/usr/share/verapdf/.installationinformation"
34 rm -r "${pkgdir}/usr/share/verapdf/Uninstaller"
35 mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
36 for f in verapdf verapdf-gui ; do
37 ln -s "/usr/share/${pkgname}/$f" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/$f"
38 done
39 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.png" \
40 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/pixmaps/${pkgname}.png"
41 install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/${pkgname}.desktop" \
42 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${pkgname}.desktop"
43}
44

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Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
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