roboat

GHSA-g47x-448w-p3rx

Malicious code in roboat (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (f04db4869c9e981873683b537f335c1f25c7c17c283315859699855a9c20816b)
During installation, the code attempts to download and start malware.

Connected with the campaign based on the time correlation and other packages published by the author.


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


Campaign: 2026-03-rowrap


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - malware

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/roboat/MAL-2026-2121.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/roboat
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/roboat/MAL-2026-2121.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/7853783660953f032d117c78eb627fa7a22bdd828b161a58f2abc7405905bce2/detection
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/fa7d6114e0d7f164122f7080d19c83ffbfa8e2f3b56a9c7ba95bf5663f72b97c
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g47x-448w-p3rx

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.0.1

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