MAL-2024-12291

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    MAL-2024-12291

    Published: 17 Nov 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in instacart-roulette-daemon-client (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (a3b808e86bd3e62945973ac3b25e0f07437a3031a13b6dd2a0567eba90a63821) During installation, the obfuscated code attempts to exfiltrate basic information about the host. There is no other purpose of the package 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: 2024-11-funkymonkeypkg 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/instacart-roulette-daemon-client

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: instacart-roulette-daemon-client

    Purl: pkg:pypi/instacart-roulette-daemon-client

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
    MAL-2024-12291 | CVE-DB