colorinal

GHSA-jh7g-x6q8-245x

Malicious code in colorinal (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.7`

## Source: google-open-source-security (aac66e0b739a7c06226108da151ee90cc6b406fcf287093e3ca4da4f5eebf79e)
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/colorinal/MAL-2025-47451.json))

**References:**
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/colorinal/MAL-2025-47451.json
- https://www.zscaler.com/blogs/security-research/supply-chain-risk-python-termncolor-and-colorinal-explained
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jh7g-x6q8-245x

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.7

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