chromium-widevine-helper-bin

maintainer Felitendo · 1 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package installs a prebuilt helper from a GitHub release by a known maintainer; while the host is not whitelisted, it's a legitimate source, and the installed files are configuration and scripts for Widevine integration, not malicious code.

Triggered rules

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package installs a prebuilt helper from a GitHub release by a known maintainer; while the host is not whitelisted, it's a legitimate source, and the installed files are configuration and scripts for Widevine integration, not malicious code.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: Felitendo
    
      2# This PKGBUILD is updated automatically:
    
      3# https://github.com/Felitendo/PKGBUILDS
    
      4
    
      5pkgname=chromium-widevine-helper-bin
    
      6pkgver=1.0.8
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8pkgdesc="Extension + native helper that installs Google's Widevine CDM into Chromium-based browser profiles (prebuilt)"
    
      9arch=('any')
    
      10url="https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/chromium-widevine-helper"
    
      11license=('GPL-3.0-only')
    
      12depends=('python' 'procps-ng' 'ca-certificates')
    
      13provides=('chromium-widevine-helper')
    
      14conflicts=('chromium-widevine-helper')
    
      15backup=('etc/helium/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      16        'etc/net.imput.helium/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      17        'etc/chromium/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      18        'etc/chromium-browser/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      19        'etc/opt/chrome/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      20        'etc/opt/edge/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      21        'etc/brave/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      22        'etc/vivaldi/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      23        'etc/opera/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      24        'etc/thorium/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
    
      25        'etc/iridium/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json')
    
      26source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.tar.zst::https://github.com/Felitendo/PKGBUILDS/releases/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.zst")
    
      27sha256sums=('efb70f082652176710b403a2629333220c1b8b96e3f27f398ba7efb496982829')
    
      28
    
      29package() {
    
      30  cp -a "$srcdir/usr" "$srcdir/etc" "$pkgdir/"
    
      31}
    
      32

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-24 00:02
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
         'etc/opera/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
         'etc/thorium/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json'
         'etc/iridium/native-messaging-hosts/org.chromium.widevine.json')
-source=("https://github.com/Felitendo/PKGBUILDS/releases/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.zst")
+source=("${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${pkgrel}.tar.zst::https://github.com/Felitendo/PKGBUILDS/releases/download/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.zst")
 sha256sums=('efb70f082652176710b403a2629333220c1b8b96e3f27f398ba7efb496982829')
 
 package() {

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 09:27:42	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 13:17:02	LOW	2