gmacpyutil

GHSA-m6j2-7v5m-mvr6

Malicious code in gmacpyutil (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 9999.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (7522b589abf570f1591bcd3eb29e4a900791d28901d30c5b57f151e899f94839)
Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.


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


Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - exfiltration-generic


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


 - typosquatting

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/gmacpyutil/MAL-2025-929.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/gmacpyutil
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/gmacpyutil/MAL-2025-929.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m6j2-7v5m-mvr6

Compromised versions (1)

= 9999.0.0

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