MAL-2022-7421

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    MAL-2022-7421

    Published: 30 Aug 2022Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023Aliases: 
    GHSA-hqmv-64pp-q4xw

    Summary: Malicious code in ascii2text (PyPI)

    Details: Source: ghsa-malware (f4a161cdfe88252de2eba4185ad1460062afc88659f928121253c995367ace33) Security researchers at Check Point Research discovered a malicious package called `ascii2text` impersonating the PyPI package `art`. PyPI has since removed `ascii2text`.

    References: https://pypi.org/project/ascii2text/, https://research.checkpoint.com/2022/cloudguard-spectral-detects-several-malicious-packages-on-pypi-the-official-software-repository-for-python-developers/, https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqmv-64pp-q4xw

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: ascii2text

    Purl: pkg:pypi/ascii2text

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    MAL-2022-7421 | CVE-DB