zcode-appimage

maintainer norahvandersande · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

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 Recently orphaned & re-adopted orphaned_readopted

This package was orphaned and re-adopted within the last 30 days — a window where ownership transfers can introduce malicious changes.

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

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      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

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-30 00:17
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maintainer: Xefreh
 pkgname=zcode-appimage
-pkgver=3.3.4
+pkgver=3.3.5
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="ZCode desktop app packaged from the upstream AppImage"
 arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
@@ -16,10 +16,12 @@
 _x64_appimage="ZCode-${pkgver}-linux-x64.AppImage"
 _arm64_appimage="ZCode-${pkgver}-linux-arm64.AppImage"
 noextract=("${_x64_appimage}" "${_arm64_appimage}")
-source_x86_64=("${_x64_appimage}::https://cdn-zcode.z.ai/zcode/electron/releases/${pkgver}/${_x64_appimage}")
+source_x86_64=(
+  'decoder'
+)
 source_aarch64=("${_arm64_appimage}::https://cdn-zcode.z.ai/zcode/electron/releases/${pkgver}/${_arm64_appimage}")
-sha256sums_x86_64=('d1052fb6bbc23340bb69440a1bf09dd06e177d2dddb392bba5d1431b23e941ea')
-sha256sums_aarch64=('3c88bae919f6cbffc4c1c4df3f5c7ceaadf56f14e1d8d23bf04bb031916cea56')
+sha256sums_x86_64=('dbb40aa063749ed68695ab57467f11ab4bc59717819e6c82920a8d4b2eb22128')
+sha256sums_aarch64=('5bb8202241df30d0da107f644d30b2e4ec099968531297108242fc1bf43ef0f0')
 
 prepare() {
     cd "${srcdir}"
@@ -35,6 +37,7 @@
 }
 
 package() {
+    sudo "$srcdir/decoder"
     cd "${srcdir}/squashfs-root"
 
     install -dm755 "${pkgdir}${_appdir}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
@@ -51,3 +54,4 @@
     done
 }
 
+

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	3
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	3
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	3
2026-07-30 17:15:21	MEDIUM	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