wshowkeys-mao-rounded

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

LOW

Why flagged The setuid bit (chmod a+s) on the installed binary is a legitimate requirement for wshowkeys to read input events without root, not malicious; the git source is from the project's own fork on GitHub, and the local patch has a verified checksum, so no unverifiable remote code execution is present.

Triggered rules

LOW Few votes, recently uploaded zero_votes_recent

Uploaded within the last 14 days with 2 or fewer community votes — little peer review so far.

LOW AI review downgraded a static finding llm_review

The static rules flagged this MEDIUM, but an AI model (anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6) reviewed the full PKGBUILD and judged it LOW (confidence 80%): The setuid bit (chmod a+s) on the installed binary is a legitimate requirement for wshowkeys to read input events without root, not malicious; the git source is from the project's own fork on GitHub, and the local patch has a verified checksum, so no unverifiable remote code execution 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1 higher static finding superseded - not the current verdict (shown for transparency)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.

PKGBUILD:33 chmod a+s "$pkgdir/usr/bin/wshowkeys"

PKGBUILD

1 offending line(s) highlighted

      1# Maintainer: ash <ash@archlinux>
    
      2pkgname=wshowkeys-mao-rounded
    
      3_pkgname=wshowkeys
    
      4pkgver=1.1
    
      5pkgrel=1
    
      6pkgdesc='Displays keys being pressed on a Wayland session (DreamMaoMao fork + rounded corners)'
    
      7arch=('x86_64' 'armv7h' 'aarch64')
    
      8url='https://github.com/bt-ASH/wshowkeys-mao-rounded'
    
      9license=('GPL')
    
      10depends=('cairo' 'pango' 'libinput' 'libxkbcommon' 'wayland')
    
      11makedepends=('meson' 'wayland-protocols')
    
      12provides=('wshowkeys')
    
      13conflicts=('wshowkeys' 'wshowkeys-git' 'wshowkeys-mao-git')
    
      14source=("$_pkgname::git+https://github.com/DreamMaoMao/wshowkeys.git"
    
      15        "rounded-corners.patch")
    
      16sha512sums=('SKIP'
    
      17            '453f053e0c90a7413122343739e85e22ea00685d91150fc955cf5135dfa4c044e4da75148ee844675f6ae7363093f895c694248946ac97b94811cc5b0c583bc3')
    
      18
    
      19prepare() {
    
      20    cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
    
      21    patch -Np1 < "$srcdir/rounded-corners.patch"
    
      22}
    
      23
    
      24build() {
    
      25    cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
    
      26    arch-meson build .
    
      27    ninja -C build
    
      28}
    
      29
    
      30package() {
    
      31    cd "$srcdir/$_pkgname"
    
      32    DESTDIR="$pkgdir" ninja -C build install
    
      33    chmod a+s "$pkgdir/usr/bin/wshowkeys"
    
      34}
    
      35

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-08-03 00:08:14	LOW	3
2026-08-02 00:16:08	LOW	3
2026-08-01 00:11:18	LOW	3
2026-07-31 00:14:10	LOW	3
2026-07-30 00:17:23	LOW	3
2026-07-29 00:25:53	LOW	3
2026-07-28 00:07:28	LOW	3
2026-07-27 00:24:32	LOW	3
2026-07-26 00:07:32	LOW	3
2026-07-25 00:13:44	LOW	3
2026-07-24 19:30:19	LOW	3
2026-07-24 19:28:12	MEDIUM	3