systoring

GHSA-4xhp-q3vc-44j4

Malicious code in systoring (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.1`

## Source: kam193 (5be790277882f23120bae2ed3979650349878074f8d3d10f869d726fa106160f)
Infostealer with multiple possibilities, but not auto-activating on installation. There are already multiple attempts to publish it, with different innocent-looking names.

The campaign contains the with Infostealer itself and packages that include it as dependency and triggered.


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


Campaign: 2025-02-multis


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


 - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/systoring/MAL-2025-3004.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/systoring
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/systoring/MAL-2025-3004.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4xhp-q3vc-44j4

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.1

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