wd5741

maintainer dpeukert · 2 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The source is a firmware utility binary from Western Digital's official downloads domain (downloads.wdc.com), which is a plausible and official host for this software, despite not being on the analyzer's whitelist; the package installs only the binary and license, with no obfuscated code or remote 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 source is a firmware utility binary from Western Digital's official downloads domain (downloads.wdc.com), which is a plausible and official host for this software, despite not being on the analyzer's whitelist; the package installs only the binary and license, with no obfuscated code or remote 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:9 source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::https://downloads.wdc.com/sata/${pkgname^^}v4.zip")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Daniel Peukert <daniel@peukert.cc>
    
      2pkgname='wd5741'
    
      3pkgver='20131220'
    
      4pkgrel='3'
    
      5pkgdesc='Firmware update utility for WD Red drives'
    
      6arch=('x86_64' 'i686' 'pentium4')
    
      7url='https://support-cz.wd.com/app/products/product-detailweb/p/288'
    
      8license=('LicenseRef-WDDisclaimerofLiability')
    
      9source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.zip::https://downloads.wdc.com/sata/${pkgname^^}v4.zip")
    
      10sha512sums=('cc81b0f1ea0e92042b870d8484449d30a89b4d55230d24944f560a0cfb8fbd34cb754bd719cf5593ba79d022ef50718b8c4d9c37381d752e141d6e3c90b1f3f9')
    
      11
    
      12_sourcedirectory="$_projectname-$pkgver"
    
      13
    
      14case "$CARCH" in
    
      15	i686|pentium4)
    
      16		_binaryname="${pkgname}x32"
    
      17	;;
    
      18	*)
    
      19		_binaryname="${pkgname}x64"
    
      20	;;
    
      21esac
    
      22
    
      23prepare() {
    
      24	chmod +x "$srcdir/$_binaryname"
    
      25}
    
      26
    
      27check() {
    
      28	_checkoutput="$("$srcdir/$_binaryname" -? || :)"
    
      29	printf '%s\n' "$_checkoutput"
    
      30	printf '%s\n' "$_checkoutput" | grep -q "^${pkgname^^} Version"
    
      31}
    
      32
    
      33package() {
    
      34	install -Dm755 "$srcdir/$_binaryname" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$pkgname"
    
      35	install -Dm644 'Disclaimer of Liability - As-Is.txt' "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/WDDisclaimerofLiability"
    
      36}
    
      37

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