windscribe-v2-bin

LOW

maintainer tk154 38 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The .install script performs privileged operations like creating users/groups and managing services, which is normal for network service packages; no remote code execution or malicious behavior is present.

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 .install script performs privileged operations like creating users/groups and managing services, which is normal for network service packages; no remote code execution or malicious behavior is present.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)

Medium Privileged / out-of-pacman install (sudoers, setuid, or self-update) privileged_install

The package grants elevated privileges or installs an update path outside pacman: a /etc/sudoers.d rule (often passwordless), a setuid/setgid binary, or a self-update script/service that can fetch and run future code with no checksum verification. The initial install may be verified, but the ongoing privilege + update surface is a real supply-chain / privilege-escalation risk.

.install:30 chgrp windscribe /opt/windscribe/Windscribe && chmod 2755 /opt/windscribe/Windscribe

PKGBUILD

      1# Maintainer: Til Kaiser <mail at tk154 dot de>
    
      2pkgname=windscribe-v2-bin
    
      3pkgver=2.24.13
    
      4pkgrel=2
    
      5pkgdesc="Windscribe GUI tool for Linux"
    
      6arch=('x86_64')
    
      7url="https://windscribe.com/guides/linux"
    
      8license=('GPL2')
    
      9depends=('nftables' 'c-ares' 'freetype2' 'hicolor-icon-theme' 'systemd' 'glibc>=2.28' 'glib2' 'zlib' 'gcc-libs' 'dbus' 'libglvnd' 'fontconfig' 'libx11' 'libxkbcommon' 'libxcb' 'net-tools' 'xcb-util-cursor' 'xcb-util-wm' 'xcb-util-image' 'xcb-util-keysyms' 'xcb-util-renderutil' 'sudo' 'shadow')
    
      10provides=('windscribe')
    
      11conflicts=('windscribe-cli' 'windscribe')
    
      12options=('!strip')
    
      13install=windscribe-v2-bin.install
    
      14source=("https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/releases/download/v${pkgver}/windscribe_${pkgver}_amd64.pkg.tar.zst")
    
      15sha1sums=('b56aa9a434bb4977ce90142f0eafe2ad1ab5e14f')
    
      16
    
      17package() {
    
      18	mv ${srcdir}/etc ${pkgdir}
    
      19	mv ${srcdir}/opt ${pkgdir}
    
      20	mv ${srcdir}/usr ${pkgdir}
    
      21
    
      22	# Fix permissions on systemd unit
    
      23	chmod -x ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/systemd/system/windscribe-helper.service
    
      24}
    
      25

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Low	2
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Low	2
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Low	2
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Low	2
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Low	2
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Low	2
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Low	2
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Low	2
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Low	2
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Low	2
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Low	2
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Low	2
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Low	2
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Low	2
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Low	2
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Low	2
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Low	2
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Low	2
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Low	2
2026-10-13 00:23:45	Low	2