MAL-2022-7430

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    MAL-2022-7430

    Published: 30 Aug 2022Last Modified: 8 Nov 2023Aliases: 
    GHSA-h82j-8jxm-68qp

    Summary: Malicious code in zlibsrc (PyPI)

    Details: Source: ghsa-malware (dfbf8f67470456ad6b704fb2c2d47edef71ce077afe59bf1a6f79913bde2fd5d) Security researchers at Check Point Research discovered a malicious package called `zlibsrc` impersonating the PyPI package `zlib`. PyPI has since removed `zlibsrc`.

    References: https://pypi.org/project/zlibsrc, 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-h82j-8jxm-68qp

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: zlibsrc

    Purl: pkg:pypi/zlibsrc

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions