MAL-2024-5101

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    MAL-2024-5101

    Published: 25 Jun 2024Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026Aliases: 
    SNYK-PYTHON-EASYHTTPREQUEST-6139264

    Summary: Malicious code in easyhttprequest (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (2b8f76adb9701e490a7cb89a6457afd1ce1cbe67712cdca356da7f35791ba993) Clone of the requests package. During installation, it downloads a git repository and attempts to execute a script from its commit message Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2023-12-09-easyhttprequest Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script. - clones-real-package

    References: https://medium.com/checkmarx-security/python-packages-leverage-github-to-deploy-fileless-malware-b6c281dea58f, https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-EASYHTTPREQUEST-6139264, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/easyhttprequest, https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/malware-leveraging-public-infrastructure-like-github-on-the-rise

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: easyhttprequest

    Purl: pkg:pypi/easyhttprequest

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.31.5
    2.31.4
    MAL-2024-5101 | CVE-DB