windscribe-v2-bin

LOW

maintainer tk154 38 votes scanned 2026-09-17 00:27:14.276658

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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-08 00:18
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-09-17 00:27
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 # Maintainer: Til Kaiser <mail at tk154 dot de>
 pkgname=windscribe-v2-bin
-pkgver=2.23.12
+pkgver=2.24.13
 pkgrel=2
 pkgdesc="Windscribe GUI tool for Linux"
 arch=('x86_64')
 url="https://windscribe.com/guides/linux"
 license=('GPL2')
-depends=('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')
+depends=('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')
 provides=('windscribe')
 conflicts=('windscribe-cli' 'windscribe')
 options=('!strip')
 install=windscribe-v2-bin.install
 source=("https://github.com/Windscribe/Desktop-App/releases/download/v${pkgver}/windscribe_${pkgver}_amd64.pkg.tar.zst")
-sha1sums=('1133a4d633f43da93015ce6ee6af6e33ac1d3e67')
+sha1sums=('b56aa9a434bb4977ce90142f0eafe2ad1ab5e14f')
 
 package() {
 	mv ${srcdir}/etc ${pkgdir}

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 23:18:28	Medium	1
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