windscribe-v2-bin

maintainer tk154 · 38 votes · scanned 2026-08-03 00:08:14.047287

LOW

Why flagged The .install script performs standard package setup tasks like creating users/groups, enabling services, and setting permissions; the flagged privileged actions are part of normal post-install configuration for a GUI application requiring a helper service, not malicious self-update or unauthorized privilege escalation.

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 .install script performs standard package setup tasks like creating users/groups, enabling services, and setting permissions; the flagged privileged actions are part of normal post-install configuration for a GUI application requiring a helper service, not malicious self-update or unauthorized privilege escalation.

1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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=2.23.12
    
      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-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=('1133a4d633f43da93015ce6ee6af6e33ac1d3e67')
    
      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
2026-08-03 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 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
2026-07-15 00:09:25	LOW	2