colorona

GHSA-23xj-vv22-qf6j

Malicious code in colorona (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.2.6`

## Source: kam193 (27014d3a14c4b1df61609aa62f901b3f8cb01f4898bb729d52d6cd08928555be)
If the method "SetTerminalColor", imitating colorama package, is called, then the code exfiltrated browser, discord and Minecraft passwords/tokens.


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2025-04-colorona


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage


 - typosquatting


 - exfiltration-browser-data

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/colorona/MAL-2025-3443.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/colorona
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/colorona/MAL-2025-3443.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-23xj-vv22-qf6j

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.2.6

Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.