vim-openbrowser

LOW

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

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Why flagged

The package downloads a Vim plugin from the official vim.org scripts site, which is a plausible project-owned host; the source is a zip file containing only Vim script files, which are data/non-executable in this context, so the worst case of a swapped source is limited to tampering with plugin functionality, not arbitrary code execution.

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 Vim plugin from the official vim.org scripts site, which is a plausible project-owned host; the source is a zip file containing only Vim script files, which are data/non-executable in this context, so the worst case of a swapped source is limited to tampering with plugin functionality, not arbitrary code execution.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=$_scriptid")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Johannes Schlatow <johannes.schlatow@googlemail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=vim-openbrowser
    
      4pkgver=2.0.0
    
      5_scriptid=25873
    
      6pkgrel=2
    
      7pkgdesc="Open URI with your favorite browser from vim"
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url="http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=3133"
    
      10license=('unknown')
    
      11depends=('vim')
    
      12makedepends=('unzip')
    
      13groups=('vim-plugins')
    
      14install=vimdoc.install
    
      15source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=$_scriptid")
    
      16sha256sums=('2abeca5d1f5b9a5fa018893197dc2e354b54cfc837b035ba6247f2c6dc37411c')
    
      17
    
      18_install_directory() {
    
      19	path=$1
    
      20	installpath=$2
    
      21	install -m755 -d $installpath/$path
    
      22
    
      23	for file in $path/*; do
    
      24		if [ -f $file ]; then
    
      25			install -Dm644 -t $installpath/$path/ $file
    
      26		fi
    
      27	done
    
      28}
    
      29
    
      30package() {
    
      31	cd ${srcdir}
    
      32
    
      33	installpath="${pkgdir}/usr/share/vim/vimfiles"
    
      34
    
      35	_install_directory doc    $installpath
    
      36	_install_directory plugin $installpath
    
      37	_install_directory lang   $installpath
    
      38
    
      39	_install_directory autoload/vital/__openbrowser__/OpenBrowser $installpath
    
      40	_install_directory autoload/vital/__openbrowser__/            $installpath
    
      41	_install_directory autoload/vital/_openbrowser/Web/URI        $installpath
    
      42	_install_directory autoload/vital/_openbrowser/Web            $installpath
    
      43	_install_directory autoload/vital/_openbrowser/Vim            $installpath
    
      44	_install_directory autoload/vital/_openbrowser/Data           $installpath
    
      45	_install_directory autoload/vital/_openbrowser/               $installpath
    
      46	_install_directory autoload/vital/                            $installpath
    
      47	_install_directory autoload/                                  $installpath
    
      48
    
      49}
    
      50

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