requesra

GHSA-r3c3-8gw7-fjfr

Malicious code in requesra (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 2.28.1`

## Source: kam193 (42ce5266dc952340618c995bfe692bd0f801b7b3d098188739aa66038074122e)
Clone of the requests package that modified the code to send all get and post requests to a hardcoded URL


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


Campaign: 2025-01-rqsts 


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - clones-real-package


 - dependency-confusion


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/requesra/MAL-2025-1991.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/requesra
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/requesra/MAL-2025-1991.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r3c3-8gw7-fjfr

Compromised versions (1)

= 2.28.1

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