waterfox-beta-bin

maintainer zoeyrae · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287
LOW
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Why flagged The package downloads a prebuilt binary from Waterfox's official CDN, which is a non-whitelisted but project-owned host; the binary is not executed during build, and the rest of the package consists of standard installation and configuration steps with no malicious behavior.

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-2507) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 95%): The package downloads a prebuilt binary from Waterfox's official CDN, which is a non-whitelisted but project-owned host; the binary is not executed during build, and the rest of the package consists of standard installation and configuration steps with no malicious behavior.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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:23 source=("https://cdn.waterfox.com/waterfox/releases/${_relver}/Linux_x86_64/waterfox-${_relver}.tar.bz2"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted
1 # Maintainer: zoeyrae
2# Contributor: zoeyrae <zoey.ronain at gmail dot com>
3# Contributor: Envolution
4# shellcheck shell=bash disable=SC2034,SC2154
5
6pkgname=waterfox-beta-bin
7pkgver=6.7.0.b2
8_relver=6.7.0-beta.2
9pkgrel=1
10pkgdesc="Beta/modern generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser."
11arch=('x86_64')
12url="https://www.waterfox.net"
13license=('MPL-2.0')
14depends=('gtk3' 'libxt' 'startup-notification' 'mime-types' 'dbus-glib' 'ffmpeg'
15 'ttf-font' 'hicolor-icon-theme')
16optdepends=('networkmanager: Location detection via available WiFi networks'
17 'libnotify: Notification integration'
18 'pulseaudio: Audio support'
19 'alsa-lib: Audio support'
20 'speech-dispatcher: Text-to-Speech'
21 'hunspell-en_US: Spell checking, American English')
22provides=("waterfox=${pkgver}")
23source=("https://cdn.waterfox.com/waterfox/releases/${_relver}/Linux_x86_64/waterfox-${_relver}.tar.bz2"
24 "waterfox.desktop")
25
26package() {
27 # Create the necessary directories.
28 install -d "${pkgdir}"/{usr/{bin,share/applications},opt}
29
30 # Install the desktop files.
31 install -m644 "${srcdir}"/waterfox.desktop "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications/
32
33 # Copy the extracted directory to /opt/.
34 cp -r waterfox "${pkgdir}"/opt/waterfox
35
36 # Install icons
37 for i in 16 32 48 64 128; do
38 install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps"
39 ln -Ts /opt/waterfox/browser/chrome/icons/default/default$i.png \
40 "$pkgdir/usr/share/icons/hicolor/${i}x${i}/apps/waterfox.png"
41 done
42
43 # Add additional useful settings
44 install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/opt/waterfox/browser/defaults/preferences/vendor.js" <<END
45// Disable default browser checking
46pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
47
48// Use LANG environment variable to choose locale
49pref("intl.locale.requested", "");
50
51// Automatic installation of updates won't work on root, so disable this
52pref("app.update.auto", false);
53
54// Use system-provided dictionaries
55pref("spellchecker.dictionary_path", "/usr/share/hunspell");
56END
57
58 # Disable automatic updates and update notifications and allow only for manual update checking
59 install -Dm644 /dev/stdin "$pkgdir/opt/waterfox/distribution/policies.json" <<END
60{
61 "policies": {
62 "AppAutoUpdate": false,
63 "ManualAppUpdateOnly": true
64 }
65}
66END
67
68 # Symlink the binary to /usr/bin/.
69 ln -s /opt/waterfox/waterfox "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/waterfox
70 # Backward compatibility symlink
71 ln -s /opt/waterfox/waterfox "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/waterfox-g
72}
73
74sha512sums=('70b13df9c056a9e35d7a1f381ad7a788f6ecea7d7ef553cac171d56228ceda2190e5ef4ca7b0653374b456c30ca124634f45585c67313b31c1a2afb515e00d4e'
75 'd0ff0445021b975d52eee7dac27dfdc0d170da07f8a8dc1676ba53387c2006f0598c163b36b07abdbb411cfb61bf52b8222fc5882bdfa8dfcd13d99cb44c92b6')
76# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:
77

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-07-21 00:24
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
# shellcheck shell=bash disable=SC2034,SC2154
pkgname=waterfox-beta-bin
-pkgver=6.7.0.b1
-_relver=6.7.0-beta.1
+pkgver=6.7.0.b2
+_relver=6.7.0-beta.2
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Beta/modern generation of customizable privacy-conscious web browser."
arch=('x86_64')
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
ln -s /opt/waterfox/waterfox "${pkgdir}"/usr/bin/waterfox-g
}
-sha512sums=('cc6c973cf65784641b432b43311d6ad1bed48a0e8a551e3dad1a12c4ee589840258333a64cd10bf533ddc6e1a2f059cb62a8ea6ace45845a49e261c03b2677c6'
+sha512sums=('70b13df9c056a9e35d7a1f381ad7a788f6ecea7d7ef553cac171d56228ceda2190e5ef4ca7b0653374b456c30ca124634f45585c67313b31c1a2afb515e00d4e'
'd0ff0445021b975d52eee7dac27dfdc0d170da07f8a8dc1676ba53387c2006f0598c163b36b07abdbb411cfb61bf52b8222fc5882bdfa8dfcd13d99cb44c92b6')
# vim:set ts=2 sw=2 et:

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)SeverityRules
2026-08-03 00:08:14 LOW 2
2026-08-02 00:16:08 LOW 2
2026-08-01 00:11:18 LOW 2
2026-07-31 00:14:10 LOW 2
2026-07-30 00:17:23 LOW 2
2026-07-29 00:25:53 LOW 2
2026-07-28 00:07:28 LOW 2
2026-07-27 00:24:32 LOW 2
2026-07-26 00:07:32 LOW 2
2026-07-25 00:13:44 LOW 2
2026-07-24 00:02:28 LOW 2
2026-07-23 00:14:47 LOW 2
2026-07-22 00:29:32 LOW 2
2026-07-21 19:17:41 MEDIUM 1
2026-07-21 00:24:15 LOW 2
2026-07-20 00:19:49 LOW 2
2026-07-19 00:17:08 LOW 2
2026-07-18 00:14:48 LOW 2
2026-07-17 00:06:16 LOW 2
2026-07-16 00:05:41 LOW 2

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