qwen-asr-pvt

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.6`

## Source: amazon-inspector (68e8b2f6db0443a648cdf03348c8dd9351568469f84b8d61022f1ed1da2a330e)
The package's pyproject.toml declares an unpinned runtime dependency on `transformers4576`, a lookalike of the widely used HuggingFace `transformers` library. Every internal import that would normally reference `transformers` has been rewritten to `transformers4576` (e.g., `from transformers4576 import AutoConfig, AutoModel, AutoProcessor` reachable from __init__.py), so `pip install qwen-asr-pvt` forces pip to resolve and install the attacker-controlled `transformers4576` from PyPI. Whatever code is published under that name executes at install/import time on the installer's machine. The lure is reinforced by publisher impersonation: the package name `qwen-asr-pvt` (a `-pvt` suffix on the real `qwen-asr`), the `Alibaba Qwen Team` author metadata, and the homepage pointing at `https://github.com/Qwen/Qwen3-ASR` mimic the official Qwen3-ASR project, while the shipped source is copied from that upstream with import statements rewritten to the typosquat name. Together these signals form a dependency-confusion dropper: the flagged package is the lure, and the harm arrives through the attacker-controlled transitive.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/qwen-asr-pvt/MAL-2026-10690.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/qwen-asr-pvt/MAL-2026-10690.json
- https://pypi.org/project/qwen-asr-pvt/0.0.6
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c3c8-w2jm-93rm

Compromised versions (1)

• = 0.0.6

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