wiki-requests

GHSA-3p6x-g586-q3h2

Malicious code in wiki-requests (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (9d4143f13c89e66e8f5b2c0905a57d6d25f6d02d46b62aef3e58d4b1f2dda697)
Setup.py attempts to exfiltrate information about the system and span a reverse shell


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


Campaign: 2025-03-wiki-requests


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


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

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/wiki-requests/MAL-2025-3019.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/wiki-requests
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/wiki-requests/MAL-2025-3019.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3p6x-g586-q3h2

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.0.1

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