f5vpn

MEDIUM

maintainer zrhoffman 14 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package installs a prebuilt executable from a non-standard, unverifiable host (cdn.f5.com for license, but the deb comes from a personal-looking MTU subdomain without clear project ownership), and grants it setuid privileges, creating 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:9 'license.html::https://cdn.f5.com/product/apm/apps/eula.html')
PKGBUILD:10 source_aarch64=("linux_${pkgname}-${pkgver}.aarch64.deb::https://${mirror}/public/download/linux_${pkgname}.aarch64.deb")

Medium Privileged / out-of-pacman install (sudoers, setuid, or self-update) privileged_install

The package grants elevated privileges or installs an update path outside pacman: a /etc/sudoers.d rule (often passwordless), a setuid/setgid binary, or a self-update script/service that can fetch and run future code with no checksum verification. The initial install may be verified, but the ongoing privilege + update surface is a real supply-chain / privilege-escalation risk.

PKGBUILD:35 chmod u+s "${srcdir}/usr/share/f5vpn-ng/svpn"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package installs a prebuilt executable from a non-standard, unverifiable host (cdn.f5.com for license, but the deb comes from a personal-looking MTU subdomain without clear project ownership), and grants it setuid privileges, creating a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised.

PKGBUILD

3 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Zach Hoffman <zach@zrhoffman.net>
    
      2pkgname=f5vpn
    
      3pkgver=7271.0.0.4
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc='VPN client using the Point-to-Point Protocol to connect to F5Networks BIG-IP APM'
    
      6arch=(aarch64 x86_64)
    
      7mirror=vpn-mgmt.it.mtu.edu
    
      8source=('no-desktop-file-dbus.patch'
    
      9  'license.html::https://cdn.f5.com/product/apm/apps/eula.html')
    
      10source_aarch64=("linux_${pkgname}-${pkgver}.aarch64.deb::https://${mirror}/public/download/linux_${pkgname}.aarch64.deb")
    
      11source_x86_64=("linux_${pkgname}-${pkgver}.x86_64.deb::https://${mirror}/public/download/linux_${pkgname}.x86_64.deb")
    
      12sha256sums=('4f4e0f6362ece63d5370e8059c182e869198fb203455bc0fa50ee3ed95a9cdd0'
    
      13            '4507e09374f3e6044952f375e4a1af31505b267c4e0bb066ff159e85694a3d6e')
    
      14sha256sums_aarch64=('4ad1008f04119975b169963960511174660403f63897be34f91abc4333418915')
    
      15sha256sums_x86_64=('04f8c670fabfe4d125849832973c3441d741ec31b1a325d799b3e702964988c0')
    
      16b2sums=('a7c4fe1a43f71fc39f42883dd80a234852bdadc0f4d595b63308cb511749a2f84ee475c4f3dd8eb74bfb854c2cfe56528d05b0a07ab637e78297e61ba7d9baf2'
    
      17        '234729d2ff102638d649e46aa7da193f3a46af396cf063876cbabb71b946ef2df4731519acc48f87e2a2d51f52e45ce494e04320a3fa006fbe5fb734820f51d8')
    
      18b2sums_aarch64=('48036a2df2c810bdbbbc3ab686da4f0ba1e4bb2c675fa6b0a15c848b8a59353d46ee8a6ea53fff2573961c31207efc732f5fab44b1e23106137b9708d89d9a24')
    
      19b2sums_x86_64=('f8dac5cd7c42aeee508483041400392904e6a695bb8aca267c507c399240b0ea36764de05e591de7ad39024d01be80032fc8ae33c6d5416bd07fc2cab097b911')
    
      20depends=(curl gtk3 openssl icu webkit2gtk-4.1)
    
      21optdepends=(
    
      22  'xorg-xwayland: wayland support'
    
      23)
    
      24provides=("${pkgname}")
    
      25url='https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_apm/releasenotes/related/relnote-edge-client-7-2-7-1.html'
    
      26license=('commercial')
    
      27
    
      28pkgver() {
    
      29  tar -xf data.tar.xz
    
      30  grep -oEm1 --text '[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+){3}' usr/share/f5vpn-ng/svpn
    
      31}
    
      32
    
      33package() {
    
      34  # f5vpn-ng should not be run as root, but it calls svpn which must be run as root
    
      35  chmod u+s "${srcdir}/usr/share/f5vpn-ng/svpn"
    
      36
    
      37  (
    
      38    cd "${srcdir}/usr/share/applications"
    
      39    patch -i "${srcdir}/no-desktop-file-dbus.patch" # Desktop file does not work with Dbus enabled
    
      40  )
    
      41  install -dm755 "${pkgdir}/usr/local/lib/F5Networks/SSLVPN/var/run" # For svpn.pid
    
      42  install -Dm644 'license.html' "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/license.html"
    
      43
    
      44  cp -a usr "${pkgdir}"
    
      45}
    
      46

Scan history

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