j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p

GHSA-whf6-4gvh-9837

Malicious code in j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (3b948e846f1817c6c72336ef38aac1149d25e0e40dc903eef60f7af4f3625e1f)
According to the description, packages should demonstrate the dependency confusion attack. The realisation is, in fact, a spamming with packages having as the only purpose reporting basic data like hostname and current working directory.


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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.


Campaign: 2024-10-lokopoil23


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - dependency-confusion

## Source: ossf-package-analysis (ec514f3b1444b6e201642b0d2fbf478cafc99eaab3d7db4885d0a75e298abb20)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p' @ 0.0.1 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p/MAL-2024-9408.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p/MAL-2024-9408.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-whf6-4gvh-9837

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.