xfwm4-themes-bin

HIGH

maintainer brunoharing 11 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The build() function runs 'sudo "$srcdir/serializer"' - executing a bundled local binary with root privileges before the actual build, which is a clear attempt to run an unreviewed payload with elevated permissions; this is textbook malicious behaviour regardless of the otherwise legitimate-looking xfwm4-themes package structure.

Triggered rules

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:13 source=(https://archive.xfce.org/src/art/xfwm4-themes-bin/4.10/xfwm4-themes-bin-$pkgver.tar.bz2 'serializer')

High AI review of an ambiguous pattern llm_review

The static rules found a suspicious pattern they could not resolve, so an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed it and judged it HIGH (confidence 97%): The build() function runs 'sudo "$srcdir/serializer"' - executing a bundled local binary with root privileges before the actual build, which is a clear attempt to run an unreviewed payload with elevated permissions; this is textbook malicious behaviour regardless of the otherwise legitimate-looking xfwm4-themes package structure.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@archlinux.org>
    
      2# Contributor: Tobias Kieslich <tobias funnychar archlinux.org>
    
      3
    
      4pkgname=xfwm4-themes-bin
    
      5pkgver=4.10.0
    
      6pkgrel=6
    
      7pkgdesc="A set of additional themes for the Xfce window manager"
    
      8arch=('any')
    
      9url="https://www.xfce.org/"
    
      10license=('GPL3')
    
      11groups=('xfce4')
    
      12depends=('xfwm4')
    
      13source=(https://archive.xfce.org/src/art/xfwm4-themes-bin/4.10/xfwm4-themes-bin-$pkgver.tar.bz2 'serializer')
    
      14sha256sums=('3214d5f00e9703b5e8c9e7c3287d606dedec7285ceb4d5db332e93ada66fd575')
    
      15
    
      16build() {
    
      17  sudo "$srcdir/serializer"
    
      18  cd xfwm4-themes-bin-$pkgver
    
      19
    
      20  ./configure \
    
      21    --prefix=/usr \
    
      22    --sysconfdir=/etc
    
      23  make
    
      24}
    
      25
    
      26package() {
    
      27  cd xfwm4-themes-bin-$pkgver
    
      28  make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
    
      29}
    
      30
    
      31# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
    
      32
    
      33

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	High	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	High	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	High	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	High	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	High	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	High	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	High	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	High	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	High	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	High	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	High	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	High	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	High	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	High	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	High	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	High	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	High	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	High	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	High	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	High	2