microsoft-edge-beta-bin

maintainer bittin · 30 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
MEDIUM
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt Debian package from Microsoft's official repository, which is a legitimate source, but the static analyzer flags the host as non-standard; while the source is trustworthy, the unverifiable nature of prebuilt binaries from non-Arch repositories carries a moderate supply-chain risk.

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:27 source=("https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-beta/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}-1_amd64.deb"
MEDIUM AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt Debian package from Microsoft's official repository, which is a legitimate source, but the static analyzer flags the host as non-standard; while the source is trustworthy, the unverifiable nature of prebuilt binaries from non-Arch repositories carries a moderate supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin@gmail.com>
2# Maintainer: Christopher Snowhill <kode54@gmail.com>
3# Contributor: EsauPR
4
5pkgname=microsoft-edge-beta-bin
6_pkgname=microsoft-edge-beta
7_pkgshortname=msedge-beta
8pkgver=151.0.4129.50
9pkgrel=1
10pkgdesc="A browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier"
11arch=('x86_64')
12url="https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download"
13license=('custom')
14provides=('microsoft-edge-beta' 'edge-beta')
15conflicts=('microsoft-edge-beta' 'edge-beta' 'edge-beta-bin' 'edge')
16depends=('gtk3' 'libcups' 'nss' 'alsa-lib' 'libxtst' 'libdrm' 'mesa' 'libxml2-legacy')
17makedepends=('imagemagick')
18optdepends=('libpipewire: WebRTC desktop sharing under Wayland'
19 'kdialog: for file dialogs in KDE'
20 'gnome-keyring: for storing passwords in GNOME keyring'
21 'kwallet: for storing passwords in KWallet'
22 'libunity: for download progress on KDE'
23 'ttf-liberation: fix fonts for some PDFs - CRBug #369991'
24 'xdg-utils')
25options=(!strip !zipman)
26_channel=beta
27source=("https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-beta/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}-1_amd64.deb"
28 "microsoft-edge-beta.sh"
29 "Microsoft Standard Application License Terms - Standalone (free) Use Terms.pdf")
30sha256sums=('a5bc3a11da9c73f250efdfbe19ce01ad686b7bdb75a602f8c3f562b5ce94e068'
31 'ccb0d8939af2f129da97f75ef063b6ff2d9484e94c090aef82570001eba8dd71'
32 'edf2ed596eb068f168287fc76aa713ad5e0afb59f0a0a47a4f29c0c124ade15e')
33
34package() {
35 bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir/"
36
37 # suid sandbox
38 chmod 4755 "${pkgdir}/opt/microsoft/${_pkgshortname}/msedge-sandbox"
39
40 # 256 and 24 are proper colored icons
41 for res in 128 64 48 32; do
42 magick "${pkgdir}/opt/microsoft/${_pkgshortname}/product_logo_256_beta.png" \
43 -resize ${res}x${res} \
44 "${pkgdir}/opt/microsoft/${_pkgshortname}/product_logo_${res}_beta.png"
45 done
46 for res in 22 16; do
47 magick "${pkgdir}/opt/microsoft/${_pkgshortname}/product_logo_24_beta.png" \
48 -resize ${res}x${res} \
49 "${pkgdir}/opt/microsoft/${_pkgshortname}/product_logo_${res}_beta.png"
50 done
51
52 # install icons
53 for res in 16 22 24 32 48 64 128 256; do
54 install -Dm644 "${pkgdir}/opt/microsoft/${_pkgshortname}/product_logo_${res}_beta.png" \
55 "${pkgdir}/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/apps/${_pkgname}.png"
56 done
57 # User flag aware launcher
58 install -m755 microsoft-edge-beta.sh "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/microsoft-edge-beta"
59
60 # License
61 install -Dm644 'Microsoft Standard Application License Terms - Standalone (free) Use Terms.pdf' "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${_pkgname}/LICENSE.pdf"
62 rm -r "${pkgdir}/etc/cron.daily/" "${pkgdir}/opt/microsoft/${_pkgshortname}/cron/"
63 # Globbing seems not to work inside double parenthesis
64 rm "${pkgdir}/opt/microsoft/${_pkgshortname}"/product_logo_*.png
65}
66

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-29 00:25
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
pkgname=microsoft-edge-beta-bin
_pkgname=microsoft-edge-beta
_pkgshortname=msedge-beta
-pkgver=149.0.4022.52
+pkgver=151.0.4129.50
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="A browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier"
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
source=("https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/microsoft-edge-beta/${_pkgname}_${pkgver}-1_amd64.deb"
"microsoft-edge-beta.sh"
"Microsoft Standard Application License Terms - Standalone (free) Use Terms.pdf")
-sha256sums=('f26e3d25aee9beeddf4c5d6bf08e1e4fe192b6a57accfbf441a1aee8e379c099'
+sha256sums=('a5bc3a11da9c73f250efdfbe19ce01ad686b7bdb75a602f8c3f562b5ce94e068'
'ccb0d8939af2f129da97f75ef063b6ff2d9484e94c090aef82570001eba8dd71'
'edf2ed596eb068f168287fc76aa713ad5e0afb59f0a0a47a4f29c0c124ade15e')

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