pyfetcher

GHSA-pp7g-r3cc-c5mw

Malicious code in pyfetcher (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.7.2`

## Source: kam193 (4a689a2d20313b4d2681d50def7abed6ad72462be076e35056a6098556b1a246)
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2024-07-vaaai-netflixchecker


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyfetcher/MAL-2024-10115.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pyfetcher
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pyfetcher/MAL-2024-10115.json
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYFETCHER-7924844
- https://www.sonatype.com/blog/pyfetcher-netfetch-drop-netflix-checker-on-windows
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pp7g-r3cc-c5mw

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.7.2

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