MAL-2024-12329

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    MAL-2024-12329

    Published: 6 Sept 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in pwnstar-lib (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (0b5a94b7cc47cb91bf552abe43f1a0d078ed5c6e668c5ff4caa8c4d9f6d14177) Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest Reasons (based on the campaign): - exfiltration-env-variables - exfiltration-generic - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - typosquatting

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pwnstar-lib

    Purl: pkg:pypi/pwnstar-lib

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.5