purevpn

LOW

maintainer orphaned 0 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The package downloads prebuilt .deb files from a CloudFront CDN (non-whitelisted host) but verifies them with sha512sums; the worst case of a malicious swap is limited to executing untrusted code during install, but the checksums mitigate supply-chain risk, and the source is plausibly official.

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 prebuilt .deb files from a CloudFront CDN (non-whitelisted host) but verifies them with sha512sums; the worst case of a malicious swap is limited to executing untrusted code during install, but the checksums mitigate supply-chain risk, and the source is plausibly official.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:16 source_i686=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_i386.deb::https://d3uym7n1flvv1x.cloudfront.net/linux/app/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_i386.deb")

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: cable_loco <el_gordo_usa@hotmail.com>
    
      2# Contributor: BlackyFox <blacky@blackyfox.net>
    
      3pkgname=purevpn
    
      4pkgver=1.2.5
    
      5pkgrel=2
    
      6pkgdesc="PureVPN Linux Application (CLI). World's Fastest, Most Reliable and Easy to Use VPN service."
    
      7arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
    
      8url="https://www.purevpn.com"
    
      9license=('custom')
    
      10options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      11depends=('net-tools')
    
      12makedepends=('tar')
    
      13conflicts=('purevpn-networkmanager')
    
      14install=${pkgname}.install
    
      15source=("purevpn.service")
    
      16source_i686=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_i386.deb::https://d3uym7n1flvv1x.cloudfront.net/linux/app/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_i386.deb")
    
      17source_x86_64=("${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb::https://d3uym7n1flvv1x.cloudfront.net/linux/app/${pkgname}_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      18sha512sums=('cc02e6062c8cd9b44662bc0317b9f1ac49971db3e41970236ab0dc2ec7dbd48065f262c5fea4b07b0ddd5dbd4e7288e23b05f8711d913ed94e6a51959375fc83')
    
      19sha512sums_i686=('9bf34048d4b4ae62ea9ff6870e0c44621ebca029d2227f12364a7abd9eb969c0653509eaef52f7cad9bcae94bd6ceb40f4b231db6f22bb60fbb18167b7fe7d3f')
    
      20sha512sums_x86_64=('7d9b31f3268c41905b81fa87d14e411df959e03a4dcae556b653b34fd310ab69a07d1d7af8d2ef27a12726697f561a2f78ca29a975827eb5756c1fbc219cf670')
    
      21package(){
    
      22
    
      23	# Extract package data
    
      24	tar xf data.tar.xz -C "${pkgdir}"
    
      25
    
      26	# Fix directory structure differences
    
      27	cd "${pkgdir}"
    
      28	
    
      29	#Move sbin to bin and Clean uneeded folders
    
      30	mv usr/sbin/* usr/bin
    
      31	rm -Rf usr/sbin
    
      32	rm -Rf usr/lib/${pkgname}
    
      33	rm etc/purevpn/ifconfig
    
      34	rm etc/purevpn/route
    
      35	
    
      36	#Install systemd config files
    
      37	install -D -m 644 "${srcdir}"/purevpn.service "${pkgdir}"/usr/lib/systemd/system/purevpn.service
    
      38
    
      39	#Install Licence
    
      40	install -D -m644 "usr/share/doc/purevpn/COPYRIGHT" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      41
    
      42}
    
      43

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