waymo-waymax

GHSA-9vfj-4v3p-mwfw

Malicious code in waymo-waymax (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 99.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (1ae76b937a20a588a9b5514b837bb86bd087aceb428216f0abbe8ff16e9da426)
Package claims to perform dependency confusion PoC and exfiltrates multiple data, including full sensitive environment variables


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


Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - exfiltration-generic


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


 - typosquatting

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/waymo-waymax/MAL-2026-6961.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/waymo-waymax
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/waymo-waymax/MAL-2026-6961.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-9vfj-4v3p-mwfw

Compromised versions (1)

= 99.0.0

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