MAL-2025-191848

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    MAL-2025-191848

    Published: 7 Jun 2025Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in pyximport (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (4495a2909bdab391f460c6671937fa60d164f745657520e43700b229f56faf0a) While described as telemetry, importing the package attempts to send out some basic info as well as quite sensitive environmental variables. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-06-stubsout 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

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pyximport

    Purl: pkg:pypi/pyximport

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
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