solana-sniper-bot

GHSA-xhcm-3f4q-mvrg

Malicious code in solana-sniper-bot (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 1.4.2`

## Source: kam193 (1140920c05a1ce00ca8d35295fb927d1bbb2ca9fe2f8e7ab9f63f9391ca6476b)
During installation, the package exfiltrates sensitive env variables, browser data, crypto wallets files, ssh keys and other configuration files.


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


Campaign: 2026-08-bip39-py


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - crypto-related


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


 - exfiltration-crypto


 - exfiltration-browser-data


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - exfiltration-ssh-keys


 - exfiltration-credentials


 - uses-telegram-bot

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/6a972618e39d8ff09404418e59be8c4051ea872d/osv/malicious/pypi/solana-sniper-bot/MAL-2026-13373.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/solana-sniper-bot
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/6a972618e39d8ff09404418e59be8c4051ea872d/osv/malicious/pypi/solana-sniper-bot/MAL-2026-13373.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xhcm-3f4q-mvrg

Compromised versions (1)

= 1.4.2

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