amazon-boto

GHSA-rv98-mg9x-qxwv

Malicious code in amazon-boto (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.42.41`

## Source: kam193 (649bb559f3078565515a9fee16dbe78e0d1b5575943cbaf020135f8e70e2f17d)
When using the package, the given AWS credentials are silently exfiltrated to a hardcoded location. This incarnation of the long-running campaign was first flagged by OpenSourceMalware https://opensourcemalware.com/pypi/amazon-boto


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


Campaign: 2025-08-aws-enumerate


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-generic


 - action-hidden-in-lib-usage


 - exfiltration-credentials

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/amazon-boto/MAL-2026-3148.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/amazon-boto
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/amazon-boto/MAL-2026-3148.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rv98-mg9x-qxwv

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.42.41

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