MAL-2026-16098
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MAL-2026-16098
Summary: Malicious code in bq-build-probe-vrp-2026 (PyPI)
Details: Source: amazon-inspector (46dd2007aa00f3bcd8ad6c767a4f1bf2da7ee75cf91d5b692aec39c546cc1d65) setup.py executes at pip install and collects a full dump of os.environ, hostname, uid/gid, uname output, /proc/self/cgroup, /proc/version, and the GCE metadata service-account email (http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/email), plus sandbox-fingerprinting signals (docker socket presence at /var/run/docker.sock, outbound reachability via socket connect to 8.8.8.8:53). The collected data is written to _build_findings.json inside the installed package, and __init__.py exposes get_build_findings() to read it back. In a CI/build environment, os.environ typically contains build secrets (CI tokens, cloud credentials, service-account material); embedding that dump inside the built artifact and providing a retrieval API turns any subsequent import or redistribution of the wheel into a channel for the harvested secrets. The package's self-description as authorized VRP testing does not change the mechanism.
Affected packages
Package
Name: bq-build-probe-vrp-2026
Purl: pkg:pypi/bq-build-probe-vrp-2026
Affected ranges
Type: N/A
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