popeye-xyz

GHSA-7246-xhf2-h7j4

Malicious code in popeye-xyz (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.4`

## Source: kam193 (583bf7b6e6437de01c7cb0cf1793e661cb0e344ba8a2235ecebc18a9bfd50a75)
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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.


Campaign: 2024-01-moye-moye


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-ssh-keys


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - 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/popeye-xyz/MAL-2024-10106.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/popeye-xyz
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/popeye-xyz/MAL-2024-10106.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7246-xhf2-h7j4

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.4

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