data-processing-utils

GHSA-2fm6-vh6v-pm2v

Malicious code in data-processing-utils (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.8`

## Source: kam193 (f5c7542831f6f9fe72a65e436b1f85c10261aac12ceae6f1bcc490afad6d1aaa)
Installing packages exfiltrates data (different in different packages and versions) or run revshells


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


Campaign: 2025-08-learning-pypi-demo-nisimi


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.


 - exfiltration-generic

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/data-processing-utils/MAL-2025-47755.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/data-processing-utils
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/data-processing-utils/MAL-2025-47755.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2fm6-vh6v-pm2v

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.8

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