nym-vpnd

MEDIUM

maintainer nym 2 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package installs a setuid binary (nym-exclude) which can elevate privileges, representing 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 can elevate privileges, representing 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=2026.14.0
    
      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-v2026.14.0.tar.gz" 'nym-vpnd.service' 'nym-vpn.conf')
    
      19sha256sums=(e4c00f89e7d35be34c4ad3258d6675c04d5f61cfbd99e52917b8bcc33b933c9b 66d5b043cbef2ae0ba19cc7685c7b42808515b8b520b0dd15a0c313ca039f6d6 af03cbdb98708e60038d784503d99f382595f3a1e020fea41d5c2cc5800de319)
    
      20_srcdir="nym-vpn-client-nym-vpn-v2026.14.0"
    
      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 @ 2026-10-21 00:12
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 # Contributor: Pierre Dommerc <pierre@nymtech.net>
 
 pkgname=nym-vpnd
-pkgver=2026.13.1
+pkgver=2026.14.0
 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=("$url/archive/refs/tags/nym-vpn-v2026.13.1.tar.gz" 'nym-vpnd.service' 'nym-vpn.conf')
-sha256sums=(e4b6c70e8d2c20b5fc7fbd51757decf0a7b7f060d69e8f0e9f06a8cf816ff2d3 66d5b043cbef2ae0ba19cc7685c7b42808515b8b520b0dd15a0c313ca039f6d6 af03cbdb98708e60038d784503d99f382595f3a1e020fea41d5c2cc5800de319)
-_srcdir="nym-vpn-client-nym-vpn-v2026.13.1"
+source=("$url/archive/refs/tags/nym-vpn-v2026.14.0.tar.gz" 'nym-vpnd.service' 'nym-vpn.conf')
+sha256sums=(e4c00f89e7d35be34c4ad3258d6675c04d5f61cfbd99e52917b8bcc33b933c9b 66d5b043cbef2ae0ba19cc7685c7b42808515b8b520b0dd15a0c313ca039f6d6 af03cbdb98708e60038d784503d99f382595f3a1e020fea41d5c2cc5800de319)
+_srcdir="nym-vpn-client-nym-vpn-v2026.14.0"
 
 prepare() {
   pushd "$_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 00:20:48	Medium	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	2
2026-10-21 23:33:14	Medium	1
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	2