nym-vpnd

MEDIUM

maintainer nym 2 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package installs a setuid binary (nym-exclude) which grants elevated privileges, creating a potential security risk if the binary is compromised or misused.

Triggered rules

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:57 chmod u+s "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-exclude"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package installs a setuid binary (nym-exclude) which grants elevated privileges, creating a potential security risk if the binary is compromised or misused.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Nym <ops@nymte.ch>
    
      2# Maintainer: Andrej Mihajlov <andrej@nymtech.net>
    
      3# Maintainer: Lawrence Stalder <lawrence.stalder@pm.me>
    
      4# Contributor: Pierre Dommerc <pierre@nymtech.net>
    
      5
    
      6pkgname=nym-vpnd
    
      7pkgver=2026.12.4
    
      8pkgrel=1
    
      9pkgdesc='NymVPN daemon as a systemd service'
    
      10arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
    
      11url='https://github.com/nymtech/nym-vpn-client'
    
      12license=('GPL-3.0-only')
    
      13depends=('glibc' 'gcc-libs' 'dbus' 'libmnl' 'libnftnl' 'polkit')
    
      14makedepends=('rust' 'cargo' 'go' 'protobuf')
    
      15provides=('nym-vpnd' 'nym-exclude' 'nym-socks5-proxy')
    
      16conflicts=('nym-vpnd')
    
      17options=(!debug)
    
      18source=("$url/archive/refs/tags/nym-vpn-v2026.12.4.tar.gz" 'nym-vpnd.service' 'nym-vpn.conf')
    
      19sha256sums=(740b6f0cc3b8907cd1089bdf9d68d1c7c017fd67c0f3ce85ff9384d71048c6cd 66d5b043cbef2ae0ba19cc7685c7b42808515b8b520b0dd15a0c313ca039f6d6 af03cbdb98708e60038d784503d99f382595f3a1e020fea41d5c2cc5800de319)
    
      20_srcdir="nym-vpn-client-nym-vpn-v2026.12.4"
    
      21
    
      22prepare() {
    
      23  pushd "$_srcdir"
    
      24  # remove unused sources
    
      25  rm -rf nym-vpn-android
    
      26  rm -rf nym-vpn-apple
    
      27  rm -rf nym-vpn-app
    
      28  rm -rf nym-vpn-windows
    
      29  popd
    
      30}
    
      31
    
      32build() {
    
      33  pushd "$_srcdir"
    
      34
    
      35  # build wireguard-go
    
      36  pushd wireguard
    
      37  ./build-wireguard-go.sh
    
      38  popd
    
      39
    
      40  pushd nym-vpn-core
    
      41  # 1. sqlx does not support LTO build flag, which is enabled by default in Arch
    
      42  # set the C flag -ffat-lto-objects to solve the issue
    
      43  # see https://github.com/launchbadge/sqlx/issues/3149
    
      44  #
    
      45  # 2. aws-lc-sys v0.38: build issues related to optimizations (fixed in newer versions)
    
      46  # see: https://github.com/aws/aws-lc-rs/pull/1064
    
      47  CFLAGS+=" -ffat-lto-objects -O0" cargo build --release --locked
    
      48  popd
    
      49
    
      50  popd # _srcdir
    
      51}
    
      52
    
      53package() {
    
      54  pushd "$_srcdir/nym-vpn-core/target/release"
    
      55  install -Dm755 "nym-vpnd" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-vpnd"
    
      56  install -Dm755 "nym-exclude" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-exclude"
    
      57  chmod u+s "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-exclude"
    
      58  install -Dm755 "nym-socks5-proxy" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-socks5-proxy"
    
      59  popd
    
      60
    
      61  install -Dm644 nym-vpnd.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/nym-vpnd.service"
    
      62  install -Dm644 nym-vpn.conf "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/nym-vpn.conf"
    
      63}
    
      64

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-16 00:03
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Contributor: Pierre Dommerc <pierre@nymtech.net>
 
 pkgname=nym-vpnd
-pkgver=2026.12.2
+pkgver=2026.12.4
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc='NymVPN daemon as a systemd service'
 arch=('x86_64' 'aarch64')
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
 provides=('nym-vpnd' 'nym-exclude' 'nym-socks5-proxy')
 conflicts=('nym-vpnd')
 options=(!debug)
-source=("$url/archive/refs/tags/nym-vpn-v2026.12.2.tar.gz" 'nym-vpnd.service' 'nym-vpn.conf')
-sha256sums=(c413d41b95a72e050761f07e103391cbeec82406d61cfec28691ca73b491dc34 66d5b043cbef2ae0ba19cc7685c7b42808515b8b520b0dd15a0c313ca039f6d6 af03cbdb98708e60038d784503d99f382595f3a1e020fea41d5c2cc5800de319)
-_srcdir="nym-vpn-client-nym-vpn-v2026.12.2"
+source=("$url/archive/refs/tags/nym-vpn-v2026.12.4.tar.gz" 'nym-vpnd.service' 'nym-vpn.conf')
+sha256sums=(740b6f0cc3b8907cd1089bdf9d68d1c7c017fd67c0f3ce85ff9384d71048c6cd 66d5b043cbef2ae0ba19cc7685c7b42808515b8b520b0dd15a0c313ca039f6d6 af03cbdb98708e60038d784503d99f382595f3a1e020fea41d5c2cc5800de319)
+_srcdir="nym-vpn-client-nym-vpn-v2026.12.4"
 
 prepare() {
   pushd "$_srcdir"

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-09-17 00:27:14	Medium	2
2026-09-16 15:22:50	Medium	2
2026-09-16 00:03:17	Medium	2
2026-09-15 00:25:31	Medium	2
2026-09-14 00:27:57	Medium	2
2026-09-13 00:19:54	Medium	2
2026-09-12 00:25:17	Medium	2
2026-09-11 00:19:22	Medium	2
2026-09-10 00:22:44	Medium	2
2026-09-09 00:04:09	Medium	2
2026-09-08 00:18:08	Medium	2
2026-09-07 00:30:15	Medium	2
2026-09-06 00:17:06	Medium	2
2026-09-05 00:16:27	Medium	2
2026-09-04 00:03:13	Medium	2
2026-09-03 00:15:47	Medium	2
2026-09-02 00:02:31	Medium	2
2026-09-01 00:11:19	Medium	2
2026-08-31 00:19:57	Medium	2
2026-08-30 00:04:14	Medium	2