termncolor

GHSA-hj9r-g48m-2r2j

Malicious code in termncolor (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 3.1.0`

## Source: google-open-source-security (bdc043b163e4ec6acada5d376a6a7becb3bba51c2b25307833500ec9fd8e1c4f)
This package is malicious and allows an attack remote code execution on
Windows and Linux machines. The package termncolor uses colorinal as a
dependency. The package colorinal contains the malicious behavior.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/termncolor/MAL-2025-47454.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/termncolor/MAL-2025-47454.json
- https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/supply-chain-risk-python-termncolor-and-colorinal-explained
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hj9r-g48m-2r2j

Compromised versions (1)

= 3.1.0

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