cursor-bin

LOW

maintainer g.schulz 97 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official Cursor downloads domain, which is plausibly the project's own release infrastructure; while the host is not a standard code forge, it is the official vendor domain, and the binary is unpacked and integrated without executing arbitrary remote code.

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; while the host is not a standard code forge, it is the official vendor domain, and the binary is unpacked and integrated without executing arbitrary remote code.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=3.28.5
    
      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=electron42
    
      12depends=(xdg-utils ripgrep $_electron nodejs
    
      13  'gcc-libs' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libxkbfile')
    
      14options=(!strip !debug) # Don't break ext of VSCode
    
      15_commit=18b4e7e5fb7fc450d7797e36c596c31aedaf59f2
    
      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]=641fc300186e2495aea822f2179ed2739e370a679f985aedf094e9c5eda8bb4a94f7ccef9926d5f467b18f7df8ec303dcb390681c1ebea63aee1f25350fa71ff
    
      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 @ 2026-10-28 00:06
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Maintainer: Gunther Schulz <dev@guntherschulz.de>
 
 pkgname=cursor-bin
-pkgver=3.27.14
+pkgver=3.28.5
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='AI-first coding environment'
 arch=('x86_64')
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 depends=(xdg-utils ripgrep $_electron nodejs
   'gcc-libs' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'libxkbfile')
 options=(!strip !debug) # Don't break ext of VSCode
-_commit=69b724ebc67ec522c1b5d287a5025f7a7e81be97
+_commit=18b4e7e5fb7fc450d7797e36c596c31aedaf59f2
 source=("https://downloads.cursor.com/production/${_commit}/linux/x64/deb/amd64/deb/cursor_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
 "https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/code/-/raw/main/code."{sh,mjs}
 rg.sh)
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
   '937299c6cb6be2f8d25f7dbc95cf77423875c5f8353b8bd6cd7cc8e5603cbf8405b14dbf8bd615db2e3b36ed680fc8e1909410815f7f8587b7267a699e00ab37'
   '793f9ff6306e3992ac89802d98110cba288ea1181a901467333293b7d76182ef9792c2a39ff49d9347a18a174b1f42bc58862091dff583f4146c2704eea28033'
   'e79fe7659f59d1ae02fc68816399bfd31587315df6cdb6ccf1d0ca76f7cdc692c2a42b30591c0091147bd97ef14b1c7745dc26bd7cb3ea6bba45698e5044fa2a')
-sha512sums[0]=b8443abaab8176c33995a630ad2046c63f663992b89c244ca11984c00d4a3f897c358541d30fa767e034cec8526ef156e53b215c75a37591594252560402a69b
+sha512sums[0]=641fc300186e2495aea822f2179ed2739e370a679f985aedf094e9c5eda8bb4a94f7ccef9926d5f467b18f7df8ec303dcb390681c1ebea63aee1f25350fa71ff
 noextract=(cursor_${pkgver}_amd64.deb) # avoid double tarball
 _app=usr/share/cursor/resources/app
 package() {

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 23:51:05	Medium	1
2026-10-28 19:50:31	Medium	1
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 07:47:02	Medium	1
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 01:43:34	Medium	1
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 07:37:02	Medium	1
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 01:33:44	Medium	1
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 19:33:05	Medium	1
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 11:27:57	Medium	2