journey-teste-shellhello

GHSA-r42r-j8h5-x7r3

Malicious code in journey-teste-shellhello (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.2.0`

## Source: kam193 (b0297ac29ad3587325dc37510f2af62bef8b7d92f76e7f123739fc6f49cead0c)
In specific environments, package starts a reverse shell during installation.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-journey-test-helloshell


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


 - targetted-attack

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/084a2f4dc9191a893dc126ccd662817a04b0b323/osv/malicious/pypi/journey-teste-shellhello/MAL-2026-18203.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/journey-teste-shellhello
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/084a2f4dc9191a893dc126ccd662817a04b0b323/osv/malicious/pypi/journey-teste-shellhello/MAL-2026-18203.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r42r-j8h5-x7r3

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.2.0

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