ggdo

LOW
maintainer ayonelnx 0 votes scanned 2026-10-08 00:28:03.132797
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Why flagged

The package builds a sudo-like tool from its own Codeberg source and intentionally sets the setuid bit on the binary, which is expected behavior for a privilege-escalation utility; the main concerns are the SKIP'd checksum on a git source and that it's a low-vote package, but there is no obfuscation, exfiltration, or unverifiable prebuilt binary involved.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 70%): The package builds a sudo-like tool from its own Codeberg source and intentionally sets the setuid bit on the binary, which is expected behavior for a privilege-escalation utility; the main concerns are the SKIP'd checksum on a git source and that it's a low-vote package, but there is no obfuscation, exfiltration, or unverifiable prebuilt binary involved.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)
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:25 chmod u+s "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ggdo"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1pkgname=ggdo
2pkgver=26.08
3pkgrel=4
4pkgdesc="Simple sudo-like command written in Go with password caching"
5arch=('x86_64')
6url="https://codeberg.org/ayonelnx/ggdo"
7license=('MIT')
8depends=('glibc')
9makedepends=('go')
10provides=('ggdo')
11conflicts=('ggdo')
12source=("git+$url.git")
13sha256sums=('SKIP')
14source=("git+https://codeberg.org/ayonelnx/ggdo.git")
15
16build() {
17 cd "$srcdir/ggdo"
18 go mod download
19 go build -o ggdo main.go
20}
21
22package() {
23 cd "$srcdir/ggdo"
24 install -Dm755 ggdo "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ggdo"
25 chmod u+s "$pkgdir/usr/bin/ggdo"
26}
27

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-10-08 00:28:03 Low 2
2026-10-07 00:21:34 Low 2
2026-10-06 00:13:36 Low 2
2026-10-05 00:08:03 Low 2
2026-10-04 00:18:08 Low 2
2026-10-03 00:23:04 Low 2
2026-10-02 00:00:32 Low 2
2026-10-01 00:02:06 Low 2
2026-09-30 00:20:07 Low 2
2026-09-29 00:07:46 Low 2
2026-09-28 00:28:32 Low 2
2026-09-27 00:07:07 Low 2
2026-09-26 00:12:15 Low 2
2026-09-25 00:03:36 Low 2
2026-09-24 00:24:14 Low 2
2026-09-23 00:28:13 Low 2
2026-09-22 00:15:14 Low 2
2026-09-21 00:26:32 Low 2
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2026-09-19 00:25:36 Low 2

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