MAL-2026-868

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    MAL-2026-868

    Published: 12 Feb 2026Last Modified: 19 Feb 2026

    Summary: Malicious code in pydantics (PyPI)

    Details: Source: kam193 (dda36b358c57e79abf804d53d4750cf2836f930b07aa524c0b5c4d231d92143f) Package is a typosquatting or dependency confusion attempt with a low-harm local-only action, like leaving a flag file. 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-local-typosquatting Reasons (based on the campaign): - dependency-confusion - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - typosquatting Source: ossf-package-analysis (7c6d61cdeefc8455cbf435a43ba1e13c796ed4b43b63fe74314706d265387ea1) The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'pydantics' @ 1.0.0 (pypi) as malicious. It is considered malicious because: - The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pydantics

    Purl: pkg:pypi/pydantics

    Affected ranges

    Type: N/A

    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.0.0
    MAL-2026-868 | CVE-DB