v2ray-desktop

LOW

maintainer Dr-Incognito 7 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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Why flagged

The flagged download is a legitimate geolocation check via ipinfo.io to conditionally switch submodule sources for users in China, which is a common practice for accessibility; it does not execute remote code or exfiltrate sensitive data, and the main source is from the project's own GitHub repository.

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 flagged download is a legitimate geolocation check via ipinfo.io to conditionally switch submodule sources for users in China, which is a common practice for accessibility; it does not execute remote code or exfiltrate sensitive data, and the main source is from the project's own GitHub repository.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium External download from an untrusted host, not in source=() external_download_not_in_source

curl/wget fetches a URL on a non-allowlisted host that is not part of source=(), so it is not checksum-verified by makepkg.

PKGBUILD:19 country=$(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/ | jq -r '.country')

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Dr-Incognito <v2ray.dev at gmail dot com>
    
      2pkgname=v2ray-desktop
    
      3pkgver=2.3.1
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="A cross-platform GUI proxy client that supports Shadowsocks(R), V2Ray, and Trojan protocols (Stable Release)"
    
      6arch=("x86_64")
    
      7url="https://github.com/Dr-Incognito/V2Ray-Desktop"
    
      8license=("GPL3")
    
      9depends=("clash>=1.5.0" "qt5-base>=5.15.0" "qt5-quickcontrols>=5.15.0" "qt5-quickcontrols2>=5.15.0" "qt5-svg>=5.15.0")
    
      10makedepends=("git" "jq" "qt5-tools>=5.15.0" "qt5-declarative>=5.15.0")
    
      11provides=(v2ray-desktop)
    
      12source=("V2Ray-Desktop::git+${url}#tag=${pkgver}")
    
      13sha512sums=("SKIP")
    
      14
    
      15prepare() {
    
      16    cd "${srcdir}/V2Ray-Desktop"
    
      17    
    
      18    echo "Detecting your country ... Please wait ..."
    
      19    country=$(curl -s https://ipinfo.io/ | jq -r '.country')
    
      20    echo "Your country: $country"
    
      21
    
      22    if [ "$country" = "CN" ]; then
    
      23        echo "Use qzxing@gitee.com for Chinese users ..."
    
      24        sed -i "s/github.com\/ftylitak/gitee.com\/Dr-Incognito/" .gitmodules
    
      25    fi
    
      26    echo "Initialize submodules. This may take a long time ..."
    
      27    git submodule init
    
      28    git submodule update --progress
    
      29}
    
      30
    
      31build() {
    
      32    cd "${srcdir}/V2Ray-Desktop"
    
      33    sed -ie "s/V2RAY_USE_LOCAL_INSTALL[[:space:]]*= true/V2RAY_USE_LOCAL_INSTALL=false/" src/constants.h
    
      34    sed -i "s/Exec=%1/Exec=\/opt\/v2ray-desktop\/v2ray-desktop/" src/misc/tpl-linux-autostart.desktop
    
      35    sed -i "s/Icon=v2ray-desktop/Icon=\/opt\/v2ray-desktop\/v2ray-desktop.png/" src/misc/tpl-linux-autostart.desktop
    
      36    lrelease src/locales/zh-CN.ts
    
      37    mkdir -p build && cd build
    
      38    qmake PREFIX=/usr ../src
    
      39    make -j$nproc
    
      40}
    
      41
    
      42package() {
    
      43    cd "${srcdir}/V2Ray-Desktop"
    
      44    install -Dm755 build/V2Ray-Desktop "${pkgdir}/opt/v2ray-desktop/v2ray-desktop"
    
      45    install -Dm644 src/images/v2ray.png "${pkgdir}/opt/v2ray-desktop/v2ray-desktop.png"
    
      46    install -Dm644 src/locales/zh-CN.qm "${pkgdir}/opt/v2ray-desktop/locales/zh-CN.qm"
    
      47    install -Dm644 src/misc/tpl-linux-autostart.desktop "${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/v2ray-desktop.desktop"
    
      48}
    
      49

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