pycryptographylibv3

GHSA-q2cw-6c4v-4cj9

Malicious code in pycryptographylibv3 (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (961e4f12709e7f7b2cceaca041246d901647f258e22b2930e53a181dbe0c52ef)
Importing the module starts an infostealer


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


Campaign: 2023-12-bananasquad


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


 - exfiltration-browser-data


 - exfiltration-generic

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pycryptographylibv3/MAL-2024-12330.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pycryptographylibv3
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pycryptographylibv3/MAL-2024-12330.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-q2cw-6c4v-4cj9

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.1.0

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