MAL-2025-989

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    MAL-2025-989

    Published: 23 Aug 2024Last Modified: 19 Mar 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in swapoc (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (fc650deb79ebf195b7e2ca4aeef3e25c9a26632fbc108f4bfabe54199f0b3b49) Packages that might be part of testing for pentesting / malicious activity / joy, with suspicious activity that does not present any real harm. Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities. Campaign: GENERIC-simple-tests Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

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

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: swapoc

    Purl: pkg:pypi/swapoc

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.0.1
    0.0.2
    0.0.3
    0.0.4
    0.0.5
    0.0.6
    0.0.7
    0.0.8
    0.0.9
    MAL-2025-989 | CVE-DB