pyprettifier

GHSA-hf7q-853w-65hw

Malicious code in pyprettifier (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (52228ec641ddc958a8048619d93a51b762697ab133afc13ec13c01d24b120467)
The pyprettifier library has a feature to send out the user home path throuh the logger. It's attached to the __init__ of EmojiConverter class. Other related packages utilize a typosquatting to imitate real packages, and attempts to call the EmojiConverter from pyprettifier, triggering notifying the author about the user's home path.


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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.


Campaign: 2024-09-pyprettifier


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - typosquatting


 - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage


 - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyprettifier/MAL-2024-11674.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pyprettifier
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyprettifier/MAL-2024-11674.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hf7q-853w-65hw

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.