thief-utils

GHSA-pw4m-76r5-29vv

Malicious code in thief-utils (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.2.6`

## Source: kam193 (bcebc8919f53e78dae4adb16168fdd37abea93d969d3411b948ed1781c6faf28)
During installation, package attempts to exfiltrate cloud credentials and sensitive env variables


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


Campaign: 2026-03-thief-utils


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-cloud-tokens


 - exfiltration-generic


 - exfiltration-env-variables

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/thief-utils/MAL-2026-1407.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/thief-utils
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/thief-utils/MAL-2026-1407.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pw4m-76r5-29vv

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.2.6

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