heroku-tl

GHSA-pj54-pw5p-p789

Malicious code in heroku-tl (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 3.2.0`

## Source: kam193 (8a78aff2389300306864bb3d44e1ac70675e128845a4d734dae5ffbc39076b93)
Clone of a legit Telegram client, with a hidden code that, under some conditions, can attempt to destroy the Linux OS.


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


Campaign: 2025-03-heroku-tl


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - clones-real-package


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/heroku-tl/MAL-2025-2967.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/heroku-tl
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/heroku-tl/MAL-2025-2967.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pj54-pw5p-p789

Compromised versions (1)

= 3.2.0

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