spider-ai

GHSA-8xgr-qjfx-xpm9

Malicious code in spider-ai (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1`

## Source: kam193 (aaeb144e288d0288f6013d64f0e9e57164e5c3eded3924fd2282577b59c28f1a)
Every time the user sends a message to the AI, the user IP, message as well as the response are exfiltrated to a hardcoded telegram channel. This behaviour is not mentioned in the package description. Instead, the description lures to offer advanced features.


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


Campaign: 2024-09-spider-ai


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-generic


 - A Telegram webhook is used to send collected data.


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/spider-ai/MAL-2024-11712.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/spider-ai
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/spider-ai/MAL-2024-11712.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8xgr-qjfx-xpm9

Compromised versions (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.