MAL-2024-12187

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    MAL-2024-12187

    Published: 26 Jul 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in adafruit-display-text (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (e23c09627673ad313852ef48f846b3ddd5a27a8eb53f0be5ce034a88f45c1a93) Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose. 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: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk. - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/adafruit-display-text

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: adafruit-display-text

    Purl: pkg:pypi/adafruit-display-text

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    MAL-2024-12187 | CVE-DB