crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d

GHSA-xwrx-mm2v-334v

Malicious code in crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 0.0.1`

## Source: kam193 (0ca34d571eaf519847a961f7da1f203d35f7a3c011f5fd4df3744f50a0615d2e)
Package attempts to collect environment variables from a specific environment, self-identified as BigQuery user-defined functions research. The final exfiltration of collected data seems to require the control of the execution environment, supporting the research/pentest claims.


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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: 2026-10-crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - abuses-pth


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/79f90997e7d5c978a8d8ecff824f6b286cd13dae/osv/malicious/pypi/crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d/MAL-2026-17863.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/79f90997e7d5c978a8d8ecff824f6b286cd13dae/osv/malicious/pypi/crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d/MAL-2026-17863.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xwrx-mm2v-334v

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.