yandex-browser

MEDIUM

maintainer labaman 48 votes scanned 2026-11-01 00:21:48.120785

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Why flagged

The package installs a prebuilt binary from a non-whitelisted host (repo.yandex.ru), which is an official vendor domain but not on standard whitelists, and performs privileged operations like creating groups and setting permissions, posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

Triggered rules

Medium source=() URL on a non-standard host source_untrusted_domain

One or more source=() URLs point to a host outside the trusted allowlist (github.com, gitlab.com, codeberg.org, pypi.org, …).

PKGBUILD:28 source=("${pkgname}-${_pkgver}.deb::https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/deb/pool/main/y/yandex-${_pkgname}/yandex-${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")

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:100 chmod 2755 "$service_path"

Medium AI review llm_review

An AI model (qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507) reviewed this and agrees it is MEDIUM (confidence 90%): The package installs a prebuilt binary from a non-whitelisted host (repo.yandex.ru), which is an official vendor domain but not on standard whitelists, and performs privileged operations like creating groups and setting permissions, posing a supply-chain risk if the source were compromised.

PKGBUILD

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      1# Maintainer: Mikhail Velichko  <efklid@gmail.com>
    
      2
    
      3_pkgname=browser-stable
    
      4pkgname=yandex-browser
    
      5pkgver=26.8.1.1111
    
      6_pkgver=26.8.1.1111-1
    
      7pkgrel=1
    
      8#epoch=1
    
      9
    
      10pkgdesc="The web browser from Yandex.
    
      11 Yandex Browser is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier."
    
      12arch=("x86_64")
    
      13url='https://browser.yandex.com/'
    
      14license=("custom:yandex-browser")
    
      15categories=("network")
    
      16provides=(yandex-browser)
    
      17conflicts=("yandex-browser" "yandex-browser-stable" "yandex-browser-corporate")
    
      18
    
      19depends=("binutils" "ttf-liberation" "jq" "alsa-lib" "at-spi2-atk" "curl" "dbus" "expat" "libcups" "mesa" "gtk4" "nss" "squashfs-tools" "wget" "xdg-utils"
    
      20"vulkan-icd-loader" "libxcomposite")
    
      21
    
      22optdepends=(
    
      23    "speech-dispatcher" 
    
      24    "gstreamer-meta"
    
      25    "cryptopro-csp-k1"
    
      26)
    
      27
    
      28source=("${pkgname}-${_pkgver}.deb::https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/deb/pool/main/y/yandex-${_pkgname}/yandex-${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")
    
      29sha256sums=("784f93792eeb038991c0533f7d9b92598da7be94a8e5aa6f06e3fd1ebe5094a6")
    
      30install=yandex-browser.install
    
      31
    
      32prepare() {
    
      33    tar -xf data.tar.xz
    
      34}
    
      35
    
      36package() {
    
      37    cp -dr --no-preserve=ownership opt usr "${pkgdir}"/
    
      38# The stable version uses the "browser" folder in /opt/yandex. ${_pkgname} cannot be used in this section for the stable branch 
    
      39#    install -D -m0644 "${pkgdir}"/opt/yandex/browser/product_logo_128.png "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/pixmaps/${pkgname}.png
    
      40    chmod 4755 "${pkgdir}"/opt/yandex/browser/yandex_browser-sandbox
    
      41    # Fix duplicate menu entry: NoDisplay=true belongs in [Desktop Entry], not in a desktop action section
    
      42    sed -i '/^\[Desktop Entry\]/a NoDisplay=true' \
    
      43        "${pkgdir}"/usr/share/applications/ru.yandex.desktop.browser.desktop
    
      44}
    
      45

Changes since previous scan

--- PKGBUILD @ 2026-10-28 00:06
+++ PKGBUILD @ 2026-11-01 00:21
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 
 _pkgname=browser-stable
 pkgname=yandex-browser
-pkgver=26.6.1.1083
-_pkgver=26.6.1.1083-1
+pkgver=26.8.1.1111
+_pkgver=26.8.1.1111-1
 pkgrel=1
 #epoch=1
 
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 )
 
 source=("${pkgname}-${_pkgver}.deb::https://repo.yandex.ru/yandex-browser/deb/pool/main/y/yandex-${_pkgname}/yandex-${_pkgname}_${_pkgver}_amd64.deb")
-sha256sums=("afb7e5027a0b6a05a7f86b2f9fa9b5b29696274d8b3e77f0348abe57e45d24c5")
+sha256sums=("784f93792eeb038991c0533f7d9b92598da7be94a8e5aa6f06e3fd1ebe5094a6")
 install=yandex-browser.install
 
 prepare() {

Scan history

Scanned at (UTC)	Severity	Rules
2026-11-01 00:21:48	Medium	3
2026-10-31 00:07:41	Medium	3
2026-10-30 00:29:30	Medium	3
2026-10-29 00:13:55	Medium	3
2026-10-28 13:50:29	Medium	3
2026-10-28 00:06:54	Medium	3
2026-10-27 00:23:28	Medium	3
2026-10-26 00:12:40	Medium	3
2026-10-25 00:20:48	Medium	3
2026-10-24 00:14:55	Medium	3
2026-10-23 00:02:19	Medium	3
2026-10-22 00:13:10	Medium	3
2026-10-21 00:12:50	Medium	3
2026-10-20 00:10:31	Medium	3
2026-10-19 00:03:55	Medium	3
2026-10-18 00:06:55	Medium	3
2026-10-17 00:21:55	Medium	3
2026-10-16 00:12:47	Medium	3
2026-10-15 00:28:05	Medium	3
2026-10-14 00:06:47	Medium	3