journey-test-hellospy

GHSA-v8q8-jrm2-52jp

Malicious code in journey-test-hellospy (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.1.1`

## Source: kam193 (418fea1fe789e9a44c77c08c9135b3da66b773882c9fb2757094c3f55b04321b)
During installation, package exfiltrates potentially sensitive environmental variables


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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/fea635bc616d499bd374ce8228ff74c2a5ace499/osv/malicious/pypi/journey-test-hellospy/MAL-2026-18133.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/journey-test-hellospy
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/fea635bc616d499bd374ce8228ff74c2a5ace499/osv/malicious/pypi/journey-test-hellospy/MAL-2026-18133.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v8q8-jrm2-52jp

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.1.1

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