cursor-bin

maintainer g.schulz · 94 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official Cursor downloads domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the source is not executed remotely, and the build process repackages it safely for Arch Linux.

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 prebuilt .deb from the official Cursor downloads domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; the source is not executed remotely, and the build process repackages it safely for Arch Linux.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source=("https://downloads.cursor.com/production/${_commit}/linux/x64/deb/amd64/deb/cursor_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Gunther Schulz <dev@guntherschulz.de>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=cursor-bin
    
      4pkgver=3.13.25
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='AI-first coding environment'
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://www.cursor.com"
    
      9license=('LicenseRef-Cursor_EULA')
    
      10# upstream uses Electron newer than internal VSCode
    
      11_electron=electron40
    
      12depends=(xdg-utils ripgrep $_electron nodejs
    
      13  'gcc-libs' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libxkbfile')
    
      14options=(!strip !debug) # Don't break ext of VSCode
    
      15_commit=31e8d61c448c7472e371505838a0fe34083dad55
    
      16source=("https://downloads.cursor.com/production/${_commit}/linux/x64/deb/amd64/deb/cursor_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      17"https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/code/-/raw/main/code."{sh,mjs}
    
      18rg.sh)
    
      19sha512sums=('SKIP'
    
      20  '937299c6cb6be2f8d25f7dbc95cf77423875c5f8353b8bd6cd7cc8e5603cbf8405b14dbf8bd615db2e3b36ed680fc8e1909410815f7f8587b7267a699e00ab37'
    
      21  '793f9ff6306e3992ac89802d98110cba288ea1181a901467333293b7d76182ef9792c2a39ff49d9347a18a174b1f42bc58862091dff583f4146c2704eea28033'
    
      22  'e79fe7659f59d1ae02fc68816399bfd31587315df6cdb6ccf1d0ca76f7cdc692c2a42b30591c0091147bd97ef14b1c7745dc26bd7cb3ea6bba45698e5044fa2a')
    
      23sha512sums[0]=f750e522d8fc6abcdc41fb4da0b567470a5542f283f5c2eb8e861f1ae55ee08c55ec6b4597b7f907606c47a34800e4c01d3284291f8bf31fbd7a6160ce02292e
    
      24noextract=(cursor_${pkgver}_amd64.deb) # avoid double tarball
    
      25_app=usr/share/cursor/resources/app
    
      26package() {
    
      27  # Exclude electron
    
      28  bsdtar -xOf ${noextract[0]} data.tar.xz | tar -xJf - -C "$pkgdir" \
    
      29    --exclude 'usr/share/cursor/[^r]*' --exclude 'usr/share/cursor/*.pak'
    
      30  cd "$pkgdir"
    
      31  mv usr/share/zsh/{vendor-completions,site-functions}
    
      32  ln -sf /usr/bin/node ${_app}/resources/helpers/node
    
      33  install -Dm755 "${srcdir}/rg.sh" ${_app}/node_modules/@vscode/ripgrep/bin/rg
    
      34  ln -sf /usr/bin/xdg-open ${_app}/node_modules/open/xdg-open
    
      35  sed -e "1s|.*|#!/usr/lib/${_electron}/electron|" \
    
      36      -e "s|code-oss|cursor|g" -e "s|code.mjs|cursor.mjs|g" \
    
      37    "${srcdir}"/code.mjs | install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}/${_app}/cursor.mjs"
    
      38  sed -e "s|code-flags|cursor-flags|" -e "s|/usr/lib/code|/${_app}|" -e "s|/usr/lib/code/code.mjs|/${_app}/cursor.mjs|" \
    
      39    -e "s|name=electron|name=${_electron}|" "${srcdir}"/code.sh | install -Dm755 /dev/stdin "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/cursor/cursor
    
      40  install -d "$pkgdir"/usr/bin
    
      41  ln -sf /usr/share/cursor/cursor "$pkgdir"/usr/bin/cursor
    
      42}
    
      43

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-28 00:07
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Gunther Schulz <dev@guntherschulz.de>
 
 pkgname=cursor-bin
-pkgver=3.13.10
+pkgver=3.13.25
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='AI-first coding environment'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 depends=(xdg-utils ripgrep $_electron nodejs
   'gcc-libs' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libxkbfile')
 options=(!strip !debug) # Don't break ext of VSCode
-_commit=4f02290ccd9304f0e6bf8ee85f6e9106f02ac1f7
+_commit=31e8d61c448c7472e371505838a0fe34083dad55
 source=("https://downloads.cursor.com/production/${_commit}/linux/x64/deb/amd64/deb/cursor_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
 "https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/code/-/raw/main/code."{sh,mjs}
 rg.sh)
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   '937299c6cb6be2f8d25f7dbc95cf77423875c5f8353b8bd6cd7cc8e5603cbf8405b14dbf8bd615db2e3b36ed680fc8e1909410815f7f8587b7267a699e00ab37'
   '793f9ff6306e3992ac89802d98110cba288ea1181a901467333293b7d76182ef9792c2a39ff49d9347a18a174b1f42bc58862091dff583f4146c2704eea28033'
   'e79fe7659f59d1ae02fc68816399bfd31587315df6cdb6ccf1d0ca76f7cdc692c2a42b30591c0091147bd97ef14b1c7745dc26bd7cb3ea6bba45698e5044fa2a')
-sha512sums[0]=efc6975631a282571898c936dd9c1eb23d335a33fae25ca795e551deda4fa975d81b19c0fb159f0dc62ca238f8bf4681b48304520d32bd682087cdc25d9868b8
+sha512sums[0]=f750e522d8fc6abcdc41fb4da0b567470a5542f283f5c2eb8e861f1ae55ee08c55ec6b4597b7f907606c47a34800e4c01d3284291f8bf31fbd7a6160ce02292e
 noextract=(cursor_${pkgver}_amd64.deb) # avoid double tarball
 _app=usr/share/cursor/resources/app
 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 05:17:13	MEDIUM	1
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 09:37:42	MEDIUM	1
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	2
2026-07-27 09:34:56	MEDIUM	1
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 05:27:22	MEDIUM	1
2026-07-24 00:02:28	LOW	2
2026-07-23 00:14:47	LOW	2
2026-07-22 05:19:42	MEDIUM	1
2026-07-22 00:29:32	LOW	2
2026-07-21 21:18:19	MEDIUM	1
2026-07-21 07:16:26	MEDIUM	1