vircadia-appimage

LOW

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

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from the project's official CDN (vircadia.com domain), which is a standard practice for AppImage-based packages; while the host is not on a whitelist, it is plausibly official and the AppImage is checksum-verified, reducing 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 prebuilt AppImage from the project's official CDN (vircadia.com domain), which is a standard practice for AppImage-based packages; while the host is not on a whitelist, it is plausibly official and the AppImage is checksum-verified, reducing 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:17 source_x86_64=("${_appimage}::https://cdn.vircadia.com/dist/release/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}.AppImage")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Based  on the template from https://daveparrish.net/posts/2019-11-16-Better-AppImage-PKGBUILD-template.html
    
      2# Maintainer: Adam Cassedy <adam.cass@pm.me>
    
      3
    
      4_pkgname=Vircadia
    
      5_pkgver=x86_64_v2022.1.0-Selene
    
      6pkgname=vircadia-appimage
    
      7pkgver=2022.1.0
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc="An open-source 3D interface and server foundation that allows for vast social & \
    
      10educational platforms to be created and lived in while also being shared in real-time with others."
    
      11arch=('x86_64')
    
      12url="https://vircadia.com/"
    
      13license=('APACHE')
    
      14depends=('zlib' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'fuse')
    
      15options=(!strip)
    
      16_appimage="${pkgname}-${pkgver}.AppImage"
    
      17source_x86_64=("${_appimage}::https://cdn.vircadia.com/dist/release/${_pkgname}-${_pkgver}.AppImage")
    
      18noextract=("${_appimage}")
    
      19sha256sums_x86_64=('3f0d9959857b4b088434d09d56aacdb9e3a55c925e4ad5af79f0295bac60d82b')
    
      20
    
      21prepare() {
    
      22    chmod +x "${_appimage}"
    
      23    ./"${_appimage}" --appimage-extract
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26build() {
    
      27    # Adjust .desktop so it will work outside of AppImage container
    
      28    sed -i -E "s|Exec=AppRun|Exec=env DESKTOPINTEGRATION=false /usr/bin/${_pkgname}|"\
    
      29        "squashfs-root/${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      30    # Fix permissions; .AppImage permissions are 700 for all directories
    
      31    chmod -R a-x+rX squashfs-root/usr
    
      32}
    
      33
    
      34package() {
    
      35    # AppImage
    
      36    install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/${_appimage}" "${pkgdir}/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage"
    
      37
    
      38    # Desktop file
    
      39    install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/${_pkgname}.desktop"\
    
      40            "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_pkgname}.desktop"
    
      41
    
      42    # Icon images
    
      43    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
    
      44    cp -a "${srcdir}/squashfs-root/usr/share/icons" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/"
    
      45
    
      46    # Symlink executable
    
      47    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      48    ln -s "/opt/${pkgname}/${pkgname}.AppImage" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_pkgname}"
    
      49}
    
      50

Scan history

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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