pyfiglets

GHSA-jcxf-hrjj-3w94

Malicious code in pyfiglets (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (66caa962e9fedf67dff7c9da840c4a4dcdca71f237d2e36f332f5b5bd32750bc)
Malicious clone of pyfiglet. Importing the package starts a series of downloading and executing of obfuscated malicious scripts, partially identified by AVs.


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


Campaign: 2025-05-rich-figlet


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - backdoor


 - clones-real-package


 - obfuscation


 - 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/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyfiglets/MAL-2025-5124.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pyfiglets
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyfiglets/MAL-2025-5124.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jcxf-hrjj-3w94

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.