xprinter-cups

LOW
maintainer hotline1337 1 votes scanned 2026-09-18 00:17:11.210425
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Why flagged

The package downloads a versioned .deb file from the official vendor's domain (xprintertech.com) to extract CUPS drivers and PPD files; these are non-executable configuration files and the binaries are from the vendor's official site, making the risk low despite the non-whitelisted host.

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 versioned .deb file from the official vendor's domain (xprintertech.com) to extract CUPS drivers and PPD files; these are non-executable configuration files and the binaries are from the vendor's official site, making the risk low despite the non-whitelisted host.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:13 source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.xprintertech.com/label-printer-linux-1")

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Filip <denuvo at tuta dot io>
2
3pkgname=xprinter-cups
4pkgver=3.13.55
5pkgrel=2
6pkgdesc="Xprinter Drivers for Linux (ESC/POS and TSPL)"
7arch=('x86_64')
8url="https://www.xprintertech.com/drivers-2"
9depends=('cups')
10makedepends=('dpkg' 'unzip')
11options=('!strip')
12
13source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}.zip::https://www.xprintertech.com/label-printer-linux-1")
14sha256sums=('56da6a61aff7e9e51174e99f63debb690cf4864f5b45fe4325c02bc7f6d54d4c')
15
16prepare() {
17 local deb_file=("printer-driver-xprinter_${pkgver}_all.deb")
18
19 cd "$srcdir"
20 dpkg -x "${deb_file[0]}" extracted_deb
21 mkdir -p prepared_ppds
22
23 for ppd in extracted_deb/usr/share/cups/model/xprinter/*.ppd; do
24 chmod 644 "$ppd"
25 gzip -9c "$ppd" > "prepared_ppds/${ppd##*/}.gz"
26 done
27}
28
29package() {
30 cd "$srcdir"
31
32 install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter"
33 install -Dm755 extracted_deb/opt/xprinter_printer/printer-driver-xprinter/bin/rastertosnailep-x64 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosnailep-xprinter"
34 install -Dm755 extracted_deb/opt/xprinter_printer/printer-driver-xprinter/bin/rastertosnailtspl-x64 "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/cups/filter/rastertosnailtspl-xprinter"
35 install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model/xprinter"
36
37 for ppd_gz in prepared_ppds/*.gz; do
38 install -Dm644 "$ppd_gz" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/cups/model/xprinter/${ppd_gz##*/}"
39 done
40}
41

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-09-18 00:17:11 Low 2
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
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2026-09-05 00:16:27 Low 2
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2026-09-03 00:15:47 Low 2
2026-09-02 00:02:31 Low 2
2026-09-01 00:11:19 Low 2
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