amigapythonupdater

GHSA-xx27-2pg4-r366

Malicious code in amigapythonupdater (PyPI)

Details

**Severity:** Critical

**Affected versions:** `= 3.1.0`

## Source: kam193 (46cf32631436ddacf36a4984b254c10554b4e94c6099c5012a96ec3a7c5426a1)
During import, only in specific environments, a module containing code disguised as telemetry is imported. This code then exfiltrates sensitive environment variables and cloud tokens to a hardcoded location, as well as starts a job listening for commands to execute. Likely dependency confusion attempts


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


Campaign: 2026-02-amigapythonupdater


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - exfiltration-generic


 - exfiltration-env-variables


 - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.


 - dependency-confusion

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Credit: [OpenSSF](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages) ([source](https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/amigapythonupdater/MAL-2026-1136.json))

**References:**
- https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/amigapythonupdater
- https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/49d0cfba3689ed9b195d101d3a2a964c6a77f767/osv/malicious/pypi/amigapythonupdater/MAL-2026-1136.json
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xx27-2pg4-r366

Compromised versions (1)

= 3.1.0

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