nym-vpnd-bin

MEDIUM

maintainer nym 4 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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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:27 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-bin
    
      7pkgver=2026.13.0
    
      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=()
    
      15provides=('nym-vpnd' 'nym-exclude' 'nym-socks5-proxy')
    
      16conflicts=('nym-vpnd')
    
      17options=(!debug)
    
      18source_x86_64=("$url/releases/download/nym-vpn-v2026.13.0/nym-vpn-core-v2026.13.0_linux_x86_64.tar.gz" 'nym-vpnd.service' 'nym-vpn.conf')
    
      19source_aarch64=("$url/releases/download/nym-vpn-v2026.13.0/nym-vpn-core-v2026.13.0_linux_aarch64.tar.gz" 'nym-vpnd.service' 'nym-vpn.conf')
    
      20sha256sums_x86_64=(b118acc5c5b1de49c079558d27674f6bea751a13e00e81e6831d0c2d95ccd5be 66d5b043cbef2ae0ba19cc7685c7b42808515b8b520b0dd15a0c313ca039f6d6 af03cbdb98708e60038d784503d99f382595f3a1e020fea41d5c2cc5800de319)
    
      21sha256sums_aarch64=(193df821712f5f738c0ce464e67305f456e44258b1006a574e0001b0571ae870 66d5b043cbef2ae0ba19cc7685c7b42808515b8b520b0dd15a0c313ca039f6d6 af03cbdb98708e60038d784503d99f382595f3a1e020fea41d5c2cc5800de319)
    
      22
    
      23package() {
    
      24  pushd "nym-vpn-core-v2026.13.0_linux_${CARCH}"
    
      25  install -Dm755 "nym-vpnd" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-vpnd"
    
      26  install -Dm755 "nym-exclude" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-exclude"
    
      27  chmod u+s "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-exclude"
    
      28  install -Dm755 "nym-socks5-proxy" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/nym-socks5-proxy"
    
      29  popd
    
      30
    
      31  install -Dm644 nym-vpnd.service "$pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/nym-vpnd.service"
    
      32  install -Dm644 nym-vpn.conf "$pkgdir/usr/lib/sysusers.d/nym-vpn.conf"
    
      33}
    
      34

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	2
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