astronomio

GHSA-vf5p-hx24-jrvf

Malicious code in astronomio (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.5`

## Source: kam193 (083fa61d5e589b627ba6c1d6db2db22ef6df9cd06e6df5bda08120e2c65bb20d)
setup.py contains highly obfuscated infostealer


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


Campaign: 2025-02-astronomio


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - infostealer


 - dependency-confusion


 - obfuscation


 - exfiltration-browser-data


 - exfiltration-crypto

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/astronomio/MAL-2025-1963.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/astronomio
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/astronomio/MAL-2025-1963.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vf5p-hx24-jrvf

Compromised versions (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.