MAL-2025-4666

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    MAL-2025-4666

    Published: 6 Sept 2024Last Modified: 12 Dec 2025

    Summary: Malicious code in proto-google-cloud-dlp-v2beta1 (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (1d21bb408ed0e178e23e5b4face7188968fd711ea7ceab009b9d04e6a508740d) Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side. Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest Reasons (based on the campaign): - exfiltration-env-variables - exfiltration-generic - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - typosquatting Source: ossf-package-analysis (f26463c2df12a5e2c69e073c1dc6e08ae3e5a9ef04039733ecd85efd53262393) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'proto-google-cloud-dlp-v2beta1' @ 0.15.99 (pypi) as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity. - The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

    References: https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/proto-google-cloud-dlp-v2beta1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: proto-google-cloud-dlp-v2beta1

    Purl: pkg:pypi/proto-google-cloud-dlp-v2beta1

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.15.99
    MAL-2025-4666 | CVE-DB