glab
Audited by Socket on Jul 8, 2026
2 alerts found:
Anomalyx2This appears to be a cross-platform installer for GitLab CLI. It contains no clear indicators of intentional malware (no credential theft, exfiltration, persistence). However, on Debian/Ubuntu it performs high-impact remote code execution by piping a network-fetched script directly into bash as sudo ("curl -s $disturl | bash") without integrity/signature verification. That pattern makes the supply-chain installation process risky and should be reviewed/hardened (e.g., verify checksums/signatures, avoid curl|bash, or use a trusted package repository).
Overall, this is a straightforward cross-platform installer for `glab`. The dominant security concern is the Debian/Ubuntu path that executes network-fetched content as root (`curl -s ... | sudo bash`) without integrity or trust pinning/verification. While the URL is GitLab-controlled, the code itself provides no safeguards against response tampering or endpoint compromise. No direct indicators of malware (exfiltration, backdoors, credential theft) are visible in the provided fragment.