MAL-2025-191722

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    MAL-2025-191722

    Published: 24 Nov 2025Last Modified: 17 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in evil-py-argo-shell (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (1739dfc040a7678b086f2ca5bab22249fcea3774fbf83c70a40b6427d6a847ee) Package demonstrate potentially malicious execution of system commands, and seems to be used for pentesting purposes 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: GENERIC-simple-tests Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/evil-py-argo-shell

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: evil-py-argo-shell

    Purl: pkg:pypi/evil-py-argo-shell

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.2
    0.1.1
    0.1.0
    MAL-2025-191722 | CVE-DB