praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (f9a677a1b1a8762a3f01e91a8da196298bf146b255dc7f9d834842916882372b)
During installation, package exfiltrates environment variables, tokens from cloud environments and fingerprints the environment. It identifies itself as a security testing engagement.


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


Campaign: 2026-09-praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.


 - exfiltration-cloud-tokens

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/4929d9d3dec968a6f203afb7bdb50cb91a300aff/osv/malicious/pypi/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026/MAL-2026-16240.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/4929d9d3dec968a6f203afb7bdb50cb91a300aff/osv/malicious/pypi/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026/MAL-2026-16240.json
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/bf7a3f7d216dd058579a254c124598a7cb5803a8/osv/malicious/pypi/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026/MAL-2026-16240.json
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/bdb777552570624b1cac8f6f1e70a33ba906d6c1/osv/malicious/pypi/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026/MAL-2026-16240.json
- https://pypi.org/project/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026/0.0.1
- https://pypi.org/project/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026/0.0.2
- https://pypi.org/project/praetorian-mind-rce-test-2026/0.0.3
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8gcf-3vx7-2wrq

Compromised versions (1)

• = 0.0.1

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