vstax

maintainer StreakyCobra · 13 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a government-hosted SFTP server (sftp.vs.ch) for a Swiss canton's official tax software; while the host is non-standard and checksums are provided, the source is plausibly official and the payload is a self-contained Java application installed locally without remote code execution or obfuscation.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a government-hosted SFTP server (sftp.vs.ch) for a Swiss canton's official tax software; while the host is non-standard and checksums are provided, the source is plausibly official and the payload is a self-contained Java application installed locally without remote code execution or obfuscation.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:20 source=("https://sftp.vs.ch/${pkgname}/${_year}/${pkgname}${_year}_${_upstream_version}-${_upstream_release}_amd64.deb"

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Fabien Dubosson <fabien.dubosson@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3# Contributors:
    
      4# Pierre-Yves Savioz <savioz.py@net-c.com>
    
      5# Stéphane Donnet <donnet.stephane@gmail.com>
    
      6
    
      7pkgname="vstax"
    
      8_year="2025"
    
      9_upstream_version="1.0.10"
    
      10_upstream_release="147"
    
      11pkgver="${_year}_${_upstream_version}_${_upstream_release}"
    
      12pkgrel="1"
    
      13pkgdesc="Software to fill the tax forms of the canton of Valais, Switzerland"
    
      14url="http://www.vs.ch/vstax"
    
      15license=('unknown')
    
      16arch=('x86_64')
    
      17depends=('java-runtime' 'shared-mime-info' 'desktop-file-utils' 'libxrender' 'libxtst' 'fontconfig')
    
      18install="vstax.install"
    
      19changelog="ChangeLog"
    
      20source=("https://sftp.vs.ch/${pkgname}/${_year}/${pkgname}${_year}_${_upstream_version}-${_upstream_release}_amd64.deb"
    
      21        "archlinux.patch")
    
      22sha256sums=('69fc4fa1813a7a746e4aa1d311b2ad803d985c7e40be0f4ab2f18f0976071418'
    
      23            '1270078c26ed43bf6a8afbe1d8d6287f5e95043c4a507130d8721895189ab94c')
    
      24
    
      25prepare() {
    
      26    cd "${srcdir}/"
    
      27
    
      28    # Extract the data contained in the `deb` file
    
      29    tar -xf data.tar.zst
    
      30
    
      31    # Patch for archlinux
    
      32    patch -p2 < archlinux.patch
    
      33}
    
      34
    
      35package() {
    
      36    cd "${srcdir}/usr/share/"
    
      37
    
      38    # Store application name in a variable
    
      39    _appname="${pkgname}${_year}"
    
      40
    
      41    # Copy the application descriptor
    
      42    install -D "applications/${_appname}.desktop" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/${_appname}.desktop"
    
      43
    
      44    # Copy the application changelog
    
      45    install -D "doc/${_appname}/changelog.Debian.gz" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${_appname}/changelog.Debian.gz"
    
      46
    
      47    # Copy the mime descriptor
    
      48    install -D "mime/packages/${_appname}.xml" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/mime/packages/${_appname}.xml"
    
      49
    
      50    # Copy the application itself
    
      51    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/"
    
      52    cp -R "${_appname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${_appname}"
    
      53
    
      54    # Move executable to /usr/bin
    
      55    install -d "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/"
    
      56    mv "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${_appname}/${_appname}.sh" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${_appname}"
    
      57
    
      58    # Remove the included java environment
    
      59    rm -Rf "${pkgdir}/usr/share/java/${_appname}/jre"
    
      60}
    
      61

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	2
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	2
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	2
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	2
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	2
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	2
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 00:24:15	LOW	2
2026-07-20 00:19:49	LOW	2
2026-07-19 00:17:08	LOW	2
2026-07-18 00:14:48	LOW	2
2026-07-17 00:06:16	LOW	2
2026-07-16 00:05:41	LOW	2
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2