pipinpeace-reverse

GHSA-rjr3-2hvh-3h7g

Malicious code in pipinpeace-reverse (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.0`

## Source: kam193 (471ba9f8dde66035e8bff446fc8acb160f041648a1fc47dd3f00db6e2ea58d08)
Package is designed to start a reverse shell during installation. However, it requires providing a URL 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-reverse/MAL-2026-2029.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/pipinpeace-reverse
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/pipinpeace-reverse/MAL-2026-2029.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rjr3-2hvh-3h7g

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.