manik

GHSA-9j6g-mw7j-whhq

Malicious code in manik (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.2.1`

## Source: kam193 (9f5401ff0b4189038b0682df9360adf8a7b3f1c0b19f41726a9bb1ebb6770d5e)
During installation, the package exfiltrates random files.


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


Campaign: 2026-07-manik


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - files-exfiltration

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/manik/MAL-2026-7006.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/manik
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/manik/MAL-2026-7006.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9j6g-mw7j-whhq

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.2.1

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