MAL-2025-1980

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    MAL-2025-1980

    Published: 21 Jan 2025Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in mlc-ai-nightly (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (7f1b0b9f87631941501e2d04d9eab7f1cd7232f770812e3373b736f9e682dc2a) Installing the package exfiltrates information about the host, including environmental variables. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-01-mlc-ai-nightly 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. - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - exfiltration-env-variables - dependency-confusion

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/mlc-ai-nightly

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mlc-ai-nightly

    Purl: pkg:pypi/mlc-ai-nightly

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    9.9.9
    9.9.99
    MAL-2025-1980 | CVE-DB