ccsinstaller

GHSA-64mf-4pj9-w8fv

Malicious code in ccsinstaller (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (3e18cda71c2919c802b866f37fc87002396540fd6d3ea3f22b7703111c247518)
Installing package downloads and install an infostealer


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


Campaign: 2023-11-dgsinstaller


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - infostealer


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/ccsinstaller/MAL-2024-12231.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/ccsinstaller
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/ccsinstaller/MAL-2024-12231.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-64mf-4pj9-w8fv

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.0

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