microsoft-edge-dev-bin

LOW
maintainer bittin 101 votes scanned 2026-09-11 15:22:58.728112
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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from Microsoft's official repository (packages.microsoft.com), which is a legitimate source despite not being on all whitelists; the binary is from the vendor and checksums are provided, making supply-chain risk low.

Triggered rules

Low AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from Microsoft's official repository (packages.microsoft.com), which is a legitimate source despite not being on all whitelists; the binary is from the vendor and checksums are provided, making supply-chain risk low.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:33 source=("https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/$_pkgname/${_pkgname}_$pkgver-${_uprel}_amd64.deb"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1# Maintainer: Luna Jernberg <droidbittin@gmail.com>
2# Maintainer: Jonas Schwartz <jonas@josc.io>
3# Maintainer: Vlad <ejiek at mail.ru>
4# Maintainer: Solomon Choina<shlomochoina@gmail.com>
5# Maintainer: Christopher Snowhill <kode54@gmail.com>
6# Contributor: Caleb Maclennan <caleb@alerque.com>
7# Contributor: intrnl
8
9_channel=dev
10_pkgname=microsoft-edge-dev
11pkgname=microsoft-edge-dev-bin
12_pkgshortname=msedge-dev
13pkgver=155.0.4268.0
14pkgrel=1
15_uprel=1
16pkgdesc="A browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier"
17arch=(x86_64)
18url="https://www.microsoftedgeinsider.com/en-us/download"
19license=(custom)
20provides=("microsoft-edge=$pkgver")
21conflicts=(microsoft-edge)
22depends=(gtk3 libcups nss alsa-lib libxtst libdrm mesa libxml2-legacy)
23makedepends=(imagemagick)
24optdepends=('gnome-keyring: for storing passwords in GNOME keyring'
25 'gtk3: for printing'
26 'kdialog: for file dialogs in KDE'
27 'kwallet: for storing passwords in KWallet'
28 'libpipewire: WebRTC desktop sharing under Wayland'
29 'libunity: for download progress on KDE'
30 'ttf-liberation: fix fonts for some PDFs - CRBug #369991'
31 'xdg-utils')
32options=(!strip !zipman)
33source=("https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/$_pkgname/${_pkgname}_$pkgver-${_uprel}_amd64.deb"
34 "$_pkgname.sh"
35 "Microsoft Standard Application License Terms - Standalone (free) Use Terms.pdf")
36sha256sums=('bb6daec6efa7c6a62107afa407c0d0c6a0ce30fcad7948d84e39e44965a35f72'
37 '285afe53b2cd617ae7f4930a1d0befe12a97ae31c30cfad74e97bf695c6f6a8a'
38 'edf2ed596eb068f168287fc76aa713ad5e0afb59f0a0a47a4f29c0c124ade15e')
39
40package() {
41 bsdtar -xf data.tar.xz -C "$pkgdir/"
42
43 # suid sandbox
44 chmod 4755 "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/$_pkgshortname/msedge-sandbox"
45
46 # 256 and 24 are proper colored icons
47 for res in 128 64 48 32; do
48 magick "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/$_pkgshortname/product_logo_256_dev.png" \
49 -resize "${res}x${res}" \
50 "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/$_pkgshortname/product_logo_${res}_dev.png"
51 done
52 for res in 22 16; do
53 magick "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/$_pkgshortname/product_logo_24_dev.png" \
54 -resize "${res}x${res}" \
55 "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/$_pkgshortname/product_logo_${res}_dev.png"
56 done
57
58 # copy icons where FHS expects them
59 for res in 16 22 24 32 48 64 128 256; do
60 install -Dm644 "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/$_pkgshortname/product_logo_${res}_dev.png" \
61 "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${res}x${res}/apps/$_pkgname.png"
62 done
63
64 # User flag aware launcher
65 install -Dm0755 microsoft-edge-dev.sh "$pkgdir/usr/bin/$_pkgname"
66
67 install -Dm0644 'Microsoft Standard Application License Terms - Standalone (free) Use Terms.pdf' "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE.pdf"
68 rm -r "$pkgdir/etc/cron.daily/" "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/$_pkgshortname/cron/"
69 rm "$pkgdir/opt/microsoft/$_pkgshortname/"product_logo_*.png
70}
71
72
73

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-14 00:03
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-11 15:22
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
_pkgname=microsoft-edge-dev
pkgname=microsoft-edge-dev-bin
_pkgshortname=msedge-dev
-pkgver=153.0.4210.0
+pkgver=155.0.4268.0
pkgrel=1
_uprel=1
pkgdesc="A browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier"
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
source=("https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge/pool/main/m/$_pkgname/${_pkgname}_$pkgver-${_uprel}_amd64.deb"
"$_pkgname.sh"
"Microsoft Standard Application License Terms - Standalone (free) Use Terms.pdf")
-sha256sums=('a8764bf68c7c766f1065f545f9c436d357817b2f641bdb6ee58a855e26217f05'
+sha256sums=('bb6daec6efa7c6a62107afa407c0d0c6a0ce30fcad7948d84e39e44965a35f72'
'285afe53b2cd617ae7f4930a1d0befe12a97ae31c30cfad74e97bf695c6f6a8a'
'edf2ed596eb068f168287fc76aa713ad5e0afb59f0a0a47a4f29c0c124ade15e')

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-09-11 15:22:58 Low 2
2026-08-14 00:03:41 Clean 2
2026-08-13 09:26:10 Low 1
2026-07-25 00:13:44 Clean 2
2026-07-24 09:27:42 Low 1
2026-06-19 19:07:35 Clean 2
2026-06-18 16:11:54 Low 1

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