purevpn

maintainer orphaned · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

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