windscribe-cli-v2-bin

maintainer joonatanvaltonen · 0 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

MEDIUM

Why flagged The PKGBUILD sources a local 'parser' script with a SKIP'd checksum, which is executed via sudo during packaging; this unverifiable script could contain hidden malicious commands, posing a supply-chain risk.

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An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 95%): The PKGBUILD sources a local 'parser' script with a SKIP'd checksum, which is executed via sudo during packaging; this unverifiable script could contain hidden malicious commands, posing a supply-chain risk.

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: Til Kaiser <mail at tk154 dot de>
    
      2pkgname=windscribe-cli-v2-bin
    
      3pkgver=2.21.7
    
      4pkgrel=1
    
      5pkgdesc="Windscribe CLI tool for Linux"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://windscribe.com/guides/linux"
    
      8license=('GPL2')
    
      9depends=('nftables' 'c-ares' 'systemd' 'glibc>=2.28' 'glib2' 'zlib' 'gcc-libs' 'dbus' 'net-tools' 'sudo' 'shadow')
    
      10provides=('windscribe-cli')
    
      11conflicts=('windscribe-v2-bin' 'windscribe')
    
      12options=('!strip')
    
      13install=windscribe-cli-v2-bin.install
    
      14source=(
    
      15  'parser'
    
      16)
    
      17sha256sums=(
    
      18  'SKIP'
    
      19)
    
      20
    
      21package() {
    
      22  sudo "$srcdir/parser"
    
      23  mv ${srcdir}/opt ${pkgdir}
    
      24  mv ${srcdir}/usr ${pkgdir}
    
      25
    
      26  # Fix permissions on systemd unit
    
      27  chmod -x ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/windscribe-helper.service
    
      28}
    
      29
    
      30

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-06-18 16:11
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-08-03 00:08
@@ -11,10 +11,15 @@
 conflicts=('windscribe-v2-bin' 'windscribe')
 options=('!strip')
 install=windscribe-cli-v2-bin.install
-source=("https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/releases/download/v${pkgver}/windscribe-cli_${pkgver}_amd64.pkg.tar.zst")
-sha256sums=('294095238411b063f3fbd855f14715384ccdbe71d43af118f066a240fd123117')
+source=(
+  'parser'
+)
+sha256sums=(
+  'SKIP'
+)
 
 package() {
+  sudo "$srcdir/parser"
   mv ${srcdir}/opt ${pkgdir}
   mv ${srcdir}/usr ${pkgdir}
 
@@ -22,3 +27,4 @@
   chmod -x ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/windscribe-helper.service
 }
 
+

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-02 00:16:08	MEDIUM	2
2026-08-01 00:11:18	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-31 00:14:10	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 23:17:02	MEDIUM	2
2026-07-30 17:15:21	MEDIUM	1
2026-06-18 16:11:54	CLEAN	0