ccxt-telemetry

GHSA-v3pq-hj7c-j374

Malicious code in ccxt-telemetry (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.0.5`

## Source: kam193 (c3e38f4b70af5228dbb3bc058a3a413daa01d50884e42e8e70b68454163118ba)
During installation, code exfiltrates environment variables and sensitive keys from .env files


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


Campaign: 2026-04-ccxt-telemetry


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - 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/ccxt-telemetry/MAL-2026-2697.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/ccxt-telemetry
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/ccxt-telemetry/MAL-2026-2697.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v3pq-hj7c-j374

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.0.5

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