nordlayer

LOW

maintainer raverecursion 5 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official vendor's domain (downloads.nordlayer.com), which is plausibly part of their official release infrastructure; while the host is not a standard forge, it is vendor-controlled, and the checksum is provided, reducing supply-chain risk.

Triggered rules

Low AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-07-25) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from the official vendor's domain (downloads.nordlayer.com), which is plausibly part of their official release infrastructure; while the host is not a standard forge, it is vendor-controlled, and the checksum is provided, reducing supply-chain risk.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:15 source_x86_64=("https://downloads.nordlayer.com/linux/latest/debian/pool/main/nordlayer_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Roland Kiraly <rolandgyulakiraly at outlook dot com>
    
      2# https://github.com/raverecursion/nordlayer-latest/tree/master
    
      3pkgname=nordlayer
    
      4pkgver=3.5.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Proprietary VPN 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=('3096474b7079287f6fcda6bd4327709db7651eca211ae791150612cf6c018a6ba963443cee4d33f61b7ca0cec46fda6b13a89a0507422da1ed3003342b653b1e')
    
      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

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Low	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Low	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Low	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Low	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Low	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Low	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Low	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Low	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Low	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Low	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Low	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Low	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Low	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Low	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Low	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Low	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Low	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Low	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Low	2
2026-08-29 00:29:17	Low	2