colorfulpacket

GHSA-wc69-4972-mgcc

Malicious code in colorfulpacket (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (46d838ba056cc96b43fd6a859a9d351ffda2aee0cdcd2b47ea13f3f38b31d038)
Importing the module downloads and executes malware


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


Campaign: 2025-12-colorfulpacket


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - malware


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/colorfulpacket/MAL-2025-192684.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/colorfulpacket
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/colorfulpacket/MAL-2025-192684.json
- https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/6b229b87f40f1e7b978bcc59925c1f935180efc1359e85c14ffc4efef81b49e2/detection
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wc69-4972-mgcc

Compromised versions (1)

= 0.0.1

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