driftwavets

GHSA-fm3q-3w2v-hcmf

Malicious code in driftwavets (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (e69baa6a16626f26b6f71e04ce89a53a693a06c6545446a9addbecfd6c95d92f)
The package belongs to a series of packages falsely advertising 'audio-analysis profiles' loader. In fact, the only purpose is to execute remote code, but the URL is not embedded in the package. It is likely a continuation of the coin-mining campaign 2026-10-voxeval which used similar wording.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-emberlytts


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - other


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/b815164fa3a6902f736245dea9a7ceaed19d225f/osv/malicious/pypi/driftwavets/MAL-2026-17912.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/driftwavets
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/b815164fa3a6902f736245dea9a7ceaed19d225f/osv/malicious/pypi/driftwavets/MAL-2026-17912.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-fm3q-3w2v-hcmf

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.0

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