youreallydontwantthispackage2132

GHSA-rr7m-4fgx-j2c8

Malicious code in youreallydontwantthispackage2132 (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.3`

## Source: kam193 (594e65e2115609e28b51abcb8b97695199a1eda6a4b72b2513bef87f5a74a211)
Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.


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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

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (21fdb6e91faa7704f17031212a0d8e492ac26c32a6fce5180dca9b5d2ae30958)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'youreallydontwantthispackage2132' @ 1.0.3 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/youreallydontwantthispackage2132/MAL-2025-5239.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/youreallydontwantthispackage2132
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/youreallydontwantthispackage2132/MAL-2025-5239.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rr7m-4fgx-j2c8

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.3

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