genvia-utils

GHSA-g25q-6w8f-jmhq

Malicious code in genvia-utils (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 6.0.2`

## Source: kam193 (daedaaf2f945a1cc86a93f479d8284153533d387ddd7b00418991a7998a37e11)
During installation, the package attempts to exfiltrate specific sensitive environment variables.


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


Campaign: 2026-02-genvia-utils


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-env-variables


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


 - dependency-confusion

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/genvia-utils/MAL-2026-622.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/genvia-utils
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/genvia-utils/MAL-2026-622.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g25q-6w8f-jmhq

Compromised versions (1)

= 6.0.2

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