MAL-2025-191752

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    MAL-2025-191752

    Published: 30 Apr 2025Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in helmet-fastapi (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (c1f805932ecbcd95197e98c6e2336eb773252abf5615fe135076d1848cb90395) Package contains hidden code adding a backdoor - a WebSocket path handler which will execute commands sent by an attacker knowing the path. In addition, it adds a log handler to remove related access logs. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-04-helmet-fastapi Reasons (based on the campaign): - backdoor - obfuscation

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: helmet-fastapi

    Purl: pkg:pypi/helmet-fastapi

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.2
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