nump

GHSA-p5mp-78pc-hvr4

Malicious code in nump (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1`

## Source: kam193 (daf533091c2cd6d2ae82e47f2ba9264b23395105f9c088018560c13cea33801f)
Package is a typosquatting or dependency confusion attempt with a low-harm local-only action, like leaving a flag file.


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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: GENERIC-local-typosquatting


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - dependency-confusion


 - 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/nump/MAL-2026-2013.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/nump
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/nump/MAL-2026-2013.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p5mp-78pc-hvr4

Compromised versions (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.