hultine

GHSA-7x48-rww6-r3gm

Malicious code in hultine (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (c6e91ab35953cced9cf886a16976bb282de1dcf804938f4179a2dcf8dc1af731)
Package exploits dependency confusion. A beacon request is used to report usage back, but no additional information are exfiltrated.


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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: GENERIC-beacon-dependency-confusion


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - typosquatting


 - dependency-confusion

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/hultine/MAL-2026-624.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hultine
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/hultine/MAL-2026-624.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7x48-rww6-r3gm

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.1

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