glob-to-regexp

GHSA-2r7g-vffp-8323

Malicious code in glob-to-regexp (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.1.1`

## Source: kam193 (ce8e1c3de8370811f29db098c2ca6d1fbd027017b5e29a9b540a3dbe8f58c704)
Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.


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


Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - exfiltration-generic


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


 - typosquatting

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/glob-to-regexp/MAL-2025-6510.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/glob-to-regexp
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/glob-to-regexp/MAL-2025-6510.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2r7g-vffp-8323

Compromised versions (1)

= 2.1.1

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