coloramapkgs

GHSA-6996-qgg6-xfrw

Malicious code in coloramapkgs (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (c7f00bfa67a0d8743c0d46766e677dce5d28db461505c662fcb8cd9efc4b2417)
Importing the module starts download and running a remote executable, identified as malware by AVs


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


Campaign: 2025-05-coloramashowtemp 


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - malware

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/coloramapkgs/MAL-2025-5103.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/coloramapkgs
- https://checkmarx.com/zero-post/python-pypi-supply-chain-attack-colorama
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/coloramapkgs/MAL-2025-5103.json
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-COLORAMAPKGS-10305012
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6996-qgg6-xfrw

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.0

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