kirux189894

GHSA-p368-qw8c-v7c3

Malicious code in kirux189894 (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1`

## Source: kam193 (f147ce226cffa7d6f6b34db801242958dc198c8d18c01cef735b65439dae8678)
Package simulates malicious activity during installation and has no other purpose


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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.


Campaign: 2025-10-wangzhou183


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/kirux189894/MAL-2025-191642.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/kirux189894
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/kirux189894/MAL-2025-191642.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p368-qw8c-v7c3

Compromised versions (1)

= 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.