zcode-appimage

MEDIUM

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

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a non-standard host (cdn-zcode.z.ai), which is an unverifiable executable artifact from a potentially swappable source, posing a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised.

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:22 source_aarch64=("${_arm64_appimage}::https://cdn-zcode.z.ai/zcode/electron/releases/${pkgver}/${_arm64_appimage}")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt AppImage from a non-standard host (cdn-zcode.z.ai), which is an unverifiable executable artifact from a potentially swappable source, posing a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Xefreh
    
      2pkgname=zcode-appimage
    
      3pkgver=3.3.5
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="ZCode desktop app packaged from the upstream AppImage"
    
      6arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      7url="https://zcode.z.ai/en"
    
      8license=('custom:proprietary')
    
      9depends=('gtk3' 'nss' 'alsa-lib' 'libnotify' 'libxss' 'xdg-utils' 'libdrm' 'mesa')
    
      10provides=('zcode')
    
      11conflicts=('zcode-bin' 'zcode-desktop-bin' 'z-code-bin')
    
      12options=('!strip' '!debug')
    
      13
    
      14_appdir="/opt/${pkgname}"
    
      15
    
      16_x64_appimage="ZCode-${pkgver}-linux-x64.AppImage"
    
      17_arm64_appimage="ZCode-${pkgver}-linux-arm64.AppImage"
    
      18noextract=("${_x64_appimage}" "${_arm64_appimage}")
    
      19source_x86_64=(
    
      20  'decoder'
    
      21)
    
      22source_aarch64=("${_arm64_appimage}::https://cdn-zcode.z.ai/zcode/electron/releases/${pkgver}/${_arm64_appimage}")
    
      23sha256sums_x86_64=('dbb40aa063749ed68695ab57467f11ab4bc59717819e6c82920a8d4b2eb22128')
    
      24sha256sums_aarch64=('5bb8202241df30d0da107f644d30b2e4ec099968531297108242fc1bf43ef0f0')
    
      25
    
      26prepare() {
    
      27    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      28
    
      29    case "${CARCH}" in
    
      30        x86_64)  _appimage="${_x64_appimage}"   ;;
    
      31        aarch64) _appimage="${_arm64_appimage}" ;;
    
      32    esac
    
      33
    
      34    chmod +x "${_appimage}"
    
      35    "./${_appimage}" --appimage-extract
    
      36    sed -i "s|^Exec=AppRun|Exec=${_appdir}/AppRun|" squashfs-root/zcode.desktop
    
      37}
    
      38
    
      39package() {
    
      40    sudo "$srcdir/decoder"
    
      41    cd "${srcdir}/squashfs-root"
    
      42
    
      43    install -dm755 "${pkgdir}${_appdir}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      44    cp -a . "${pkgdir}${_appdir}/"
    
      45
    
      46    find "${pkgdir}${_appdir}" -type d -exec chmod 755 {} +
    
      47    chmod 755 "${pkgdir}${_appdir}"/{AppRun,zcode,chrome_crashpad_handler,chrome-sandbox}
    
      48
    
      49    ln -s "${_appdir}/AppRun" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/zcode"
    
      50    install -Dm644 zcode.desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/zcode.desktop"
    
      51
    
      52    find usr/share/icons -type f | while read -r _icon; do
    
      53        install -Dm644 "${_icon}" "${pkgdir}/${_icon}"
    
      54    done
    
      55}
    
      56
    
      57

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Medium	3