MAL-2025-191845

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    MAL-2025-191845

    Published: 10 May 2025Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in python3-shodan (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (b4fca245262ff8de532efc88e1941697e6994786e09eca8a9cbcdbf9faff5cca) Packages that seem to be created by a legit bug bounty hunter. Designed to look like created by different organisations, they contain a couple of data exfiltration (including all env variables) and potential remote code execution (though the URL seems not to serve any code). Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-05-sl4x01 Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk. - exfiltration-env-variables - impersonation

    References: https://github.com/sl4x0, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/python3-shodan

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: python3-shodan

    Purl: pkg:pypi/python3-shodan

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
    MAL-2025-191845 | CVE-DB