MAL-2024-9408

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    MAL-2024-9408

    Published: 16 Oct 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (3b948e846f1817c6c72336ef38aac1149d25e0e40dc903eef60f7af4f3625e1f) According to the description, packages should demonstrate the dependency confusion attack. The realisation is, in fact, a spamming with packages having as the only purpose reporting basic data like hostname and current working directory. 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: 2024-10-lokopoil23 Reasons (based on the campaign): - dependency-confusion Source: ossf-package-analysis (ec514f3b1444b6e201642b0d2fbf478cafc99eaab3d7db4885d0a75e298abb20) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p' @ 0.0.1 (pypi) as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p

    Purl: pkg:pypi/j5gerggnpuiwerbngpiutbgn0iutb0p

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
    MAL-2024-9408 | CVE-DB