pwnstar-lib

GHSA-c4jp-m7cv-hmq6

Malicious code in pwnstar-lib (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.5`

## Source: kam193 (0b5a94b7cc47cb91bf552abe43f1a0d078ed5c6e668c5ff4caa8c4d9f6d14177)
Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.


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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/pwnstar-lib/MAL-2024-12329.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pwnstar-lib
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pwnstar-lib/MAL-2024-12329.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c4jp-m7cv-hmq6

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.5

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