surfshark-client

MEDIUM

maintainer otaj 30 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-standard host (ocean.surfshark.com), which is not a common upstream release domain, and the checksum is provided but the source is a binary blob that could pose a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or spoofed.

Triggered rules

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:23 source=("https://ocean.surfshark.com/debian/pool/main/s/surfshark_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt .deb from a non-standard host (ocean.surfshark.com), which is not a common upstream release domain, and the checksum is provided but the source is a binary blob that could pose a supply-chain risk if the host is compromised or spoofed.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Liam Doan <not.lamdn@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3pkgname=surfshark-client
    
      4pkgver=3.14.0
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc="Official Surfshark VPN client"
    
      7arch=('x86_64')
    
      8url="https://surfshark.com"
    
      9license=('custom:surfshark')
    
      10depends=(
    
      11	'gjs'
    
      12	'nss'
    
      13	'networkmanager'
    
      14	'networkmanager-openvpn'
    
      15)
    
      16optdepends=(
    
      17	'libappindicator-gtk3: for tray icon'
    
      18	'org.freedesktop.secrets: password storage backend'
    
      19	'emoji-font: emoji support'
    
      20)
    
      21options=('!strip' '!emptydirs')
    
      22install=${pkgname}.install
    
      23source=("https://ocean.surfshark.com/debian/pool/main/s/surfshark_${pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      24sha256sums=('61e20cf567da917a038f40dc6e4a3cb0006a32cac3e212a62f8cb7fe349540b6')
    
      25
    
      26prepare() {
    
      27    tar xf data.tar.xz
    
      28}
    
      29
    
      30package(){
    
      31    cp -rp usr/ opt/ etc/ "${pkgdir}"
    
      32
    
      33	# Install License file
    
      34	install -D -m644 "${pkgdir}/opt/Surfshark/resources/dist/resources/surfsharkd.js.LICENSE.txt" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
    
      35
    
      36	# Create link for surfshark executable in /bin
    
      37	mkdir -p "${pkgdir}/usr/bin" && ln -sf "/opt/Surfshark/surfshark" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/surfshark"
    
      38
    
      39	# Correct permissions on OpenVPN secrets
    
      40	chmod 750 "${pkgdir}/etc/openvpn/client"
    
      41
    
      42	# SUID chrome-sandbox for Electron 5+
    
      43	chmod 4755 "${pkgdir}/opt/Surfshark/chrome-sandbox" || true
    
      44
    
      45	# Assign correct permissions for systemctl to run surfsharkd service as user
    
      46	chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/Surfshark/resources/dist/resources/surfsharkd.js" || true
    
      47	chmod 744 "${pkgdir}/opt/Surfshark/resources/dist/resources/surfsharkd2.js" || true
    
      48
    
      49	# Permissions for update and diagnostics
    
      50	chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/Surfshark/resources/dist/resources/update" || true
    
      51	chmod 755 "${pkgdir}/opt/Surfshark/resources/dist/resources/diagnostics" || true
    
      52
    
      53}
    
      54

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 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
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Medium	2