faest

GHSA-mj77-7q6j-xr37

Malicious code in faest (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.14.6`

## Source: kam193 (f66b290465d72fc55bce4fef4200ebea68c430be84cdcbbabec5263958041781)
When using this library to do any request, a "validate_origin" function is called (L1320 in _client.py). This method, located in _utils.py, collects all request data, tries also read /etc/shadow using Docker container, and sends them to an endpoint controlled by the package author.

The package seems to be a clone of httpx and also informs in the README that it's a malicious library, as so, it seems to be a malicious research attempts.


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


Campaign: 2024-09-old-faest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-generic


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage


 - clones-real-package

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/faest/MAL-2024-12269.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/faest
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/faest/MAL-2024-12269.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mj77-7q6j-xr37

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.14.6

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