nordlayer

MEDIUM

maintainer raverecursion 5 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official vendor's domain, which is not on the static analyzer's whitelist; however, the source is verifiable via a matching checksum, and the .deb is from the project's official infrastructure, reducing 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:15 source_x86_64=("https://downloads.nordlayer.com/linux/latest/debian/pool/main/nordlayer_${pkgver}_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 .deb from the official vendor's domain, which is not on the static analyzer's whitelist; however, the source is verifiable via a matching checksum, and the .deb is from the project's official infrastructure, reducing risk.

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: Roland Kiraly <rolandgyulakiraly at outlook dot com>
    
      2# https://github.com/rolki-png/nordlayer-latest/tree/master
    
      3pkgname=nordlayer
    
      4pkgver=3.6.0
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="Proprietary secure network access client for Linux"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://nordlayer.com"
    
      9license=('custom:commercial')
    
      10replaces=('nordvpnteams-bin')
    
      11conflicts=('nordvpnteams-bin' 'nordlayer-bin')
    
      12depends=('bash' 'libgcrypt' 'libgpg-error' 'libcap' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'gmp' 'strongswan')
    
      13options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      14install=${pkgname}.install
    
      15source_x86_64=("https://downloads.nordlayer.com/linux/latest/debian/pool/main/nordlayer_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      16sha512sums_x86_64=('b45605d31dabdf90ce3432614acda69de7d8eaeb21f7ff2bce627cc8e6ffcdc4604dca9a417dda3caa730f4b3d4878b09adc66936a64a95c180485314ab04f3a')
    
      17
    
      18package() {
    
      19    cd "${srcdir}"
    
      20    # Extract the control and data tarballs from the .deb file
    
      21    ar x "${srcdir}/nordlayer_${pkgver}_amd64.deb"
    
      22
    
      23    # Extract the data.tar.gz into the pkgdir
    
      24    tar -xzf data.tar.gz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      25
    
      26    # Move sbin binaries to bin
    
      27    if [ -d "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin" ]; then
    
      28        mv "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin"/* "${pkgdir}/usr/bin"
    
      29        # Update the systemd service file to point to /usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin
    
      30        sed -i 's+/usr/sbin+/usr/bin+g' "${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/nordlayer.service"
    
      31        # Remove the now-empty sbin directory
    
      32        rm -r "${pkgdir}/usr/sbin"
    
      33    fi
    
      34}
    
      35

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-25 00:20
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 # Maintainer: Roland Kiraly <rolandgyulakiraly at outlook dot com>
-# https://github.com/raverecursion/nordlayer-latest/tree/master
+# https://github.com/rolki-png/nordlayer-latest/tree/master
 pkgname=nordlayer
-pkgver=3.5.0
-pkgrel=1
-pkgdesc="Proprietary VPN client for Linux"
+pkgver=3.6.0
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc="Proprietary secure network access client for Linux"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://nordlayer.com"
 license=('custom:commercial')
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
 install=${pkgname}.install
 source_x86_64=("https://downloads.nordlayer.com/linux/latest/debian/pool/main/nordlayer_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
-sha512sums_x86_64=('3096474b7079287f6fcda6bd4327709db7651eca211ae791150612cf6c018a6ba963443cee4d33f61b7ca0cec46fda6b13a89a0507422da1ed3003342b653b1e')
+sha512sums_x86_64=('b45605d31dabdf90ce3432614acda69de7d8eaeb21f7ff2bce627cc8e6ffcdc4604dca9a417dda3caa730f4b3d4878b09adc66936a64a95c180485314ab04f3a')
 
 package() {
     cd "${srcdir}"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	2
2026-10-25 21:43:05	Medium	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2