requests-auth-toolkit

GHSA-p528-2562-pwr5

Malicious code in requests-auth-toolkit (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (03bb4c04410c4e3c58d7292eb47f8f76a2fbe5265abea29826ac910e890350d0)
During installation, package installs a script that listens for remote commands and executes them. The script is also added to autostart configuration and disguised as system application. This package also adds a new SSH keys for further persistence


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


Campaign: 2026-02-devtools-webhook-cicd-utils


Reasons (based on the campaign):


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


 - peristence-autorun


 - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.


 - obfuscation

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/requests-auth-toolkit/MAL-2026-847.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/requests-auth-toolkit
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/requests-auth-toolkit/MAL-2026-847.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p528-2562-pwr5

Compromised versions (1)

= 2.1.0

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