solana-test-suite

GHSA-mc4r-c5wr-f89q

Malicious code in solana-test-suite (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (637014df713a194c727be0c3c8a6883b80fa29c7e66be089dd3bb82e49b915b4)
Packages that seem to be created by a legit bug bounty hunter. Designed to look like created by different organisations, they contain a couple of data exfiltration (including all env variables) and potential remote code execution (though the URL seems not to serve any code).


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


Campaign: 2025-05-sl4x01


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - impersonation

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/solana-test-suite/MAL-2025-4240.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/solana-test-suite
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/solana-test-suite/MAL-2025-4240.json
- https://github.com/sl4x0
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mc4r-c5wr-f89q

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.0

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