pipinpeace-bind

GHSA-pxg2-78wh-q2mh

Malicious code in pipinpeace-bind (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (e78be1bf65bda1455a5f08dafdf69aef528e4fb206333e1ecb6c6a97fe8adbc2)
Package is designed to start a bind shell during installation. However, it requires providing the port as an installation parameter, which suggests it's more research than direct malicious intentions.


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


Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - exfiltration-generic


 - 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/pipinpeace-bind/MAL-2026-2028.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pipinpeace-bind
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pipinpeace-bind/MAL-2026-2028.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pxg2-78wh-q2mh

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.0.0

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