pypiele

GHSA-qv9m-hg6w-wq8w

Malicious code in pypiele (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `> 0`

## Source: checkmarx (ee88c93851e948d712a89564bfc344ce19843d9b5ed8fcd696d5d530fdc59e34)
Malicious packages campaign targeting developers, payload is hidden using Steganography, exfiltrate host information

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pypiele/MAL-2023-8584.json))

**References:**
- https://checkmarx.com/blog/attacker-hidden-in-plain-sight-for-nearly-six-months-targeting-python-developers
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pypiele/MAL-2023-8584.json
- https://medium.com/checkmarx-security/attacker-hidden-in-plain-sight-for-nearly-six-months-targeting-python-developers-3712f0f107e0
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYPIELE-6069639
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qv9m-hg6w-wq8w

Compromised versions (1)

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