easyhttprequest

GHSA-7m2r-h9wm-jjf7

Malicious code in easyhttprequest (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.31.5`

## Source: kam193 (2b8f76adb9701e490a7cb89a6457afd1ce1cbe67712cdca356da7f35791ba993)
Clone of the requests package. During installation, it downloads a git repository and attempts to execute a script from its commit message


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


Campaign: 2023-12-09-easyhttprequest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - clones-real-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/easyhttprequest/MAL-2024-5101.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/easyhttprequest
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/easyhttprequest/MAL-2024-5101.json
- https://medium.com/checkmarx-security/python-packages-leverage-github-to-deploy-fileless-malware-b6c281dea58f
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-EASYHTTPREQUEST-6139264
- https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/malware-leveraging-public-infrastructure-like-github-on-the-rise
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7m2r-h9wm-jjf7

Compromised versions (1)

= 2.31.5

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