MAL-2024-12218

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    MAL-2024-12218

    Published: 30 Nov 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in bettercolorstesting (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (607fc60886a9983c22c65cd01bb93585f27b0830f203f3b3b181ff12026ea036) Packages either test the malicious behaviour, or actually download and run a simple remote script during the installation. 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: 2023-12-valuent 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. - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/bettercolorstesting

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: bettercolorstesting

    Purl: pkg:pypi/bettercolorstesting

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    MAL-2024-12218 | CVE-DB