reque

GHSA-4m9g-73j7-mmf2

Malicious code in reque (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.28.1`

## Source: kam193 (8ce48406d7fce137de7e9a500179d7d6fcc5857714587372c977c5d6793cad30)
Clone of the requests package that modified the code to send all get and post requests to a hardcoded URL


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


Campaign: 2025-01-rqsts 


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - clones-real-package


 - dependency-confusion


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/reque/MAL-2025-1989.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/reque
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/reque/MAL-2025-1989.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4m9g-73j7-mmf2

Compromised versions (1)

= 2.28.1

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