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Incident detail

criticalpypi·malware·osv

Malicious code in robase-install (PyPI)

robase-install

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for robase-install (pypi).

Description

The package is part of a malicious campaign, but was removed before the malicious code got embedded inside.


Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2026-03-roboat-addition

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

  • Downloads and executes a remote executable.

  • The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

  • malware

  • clones-real-package

Technical details

Indicators

  • affected version<function fixed() { [native code] }75%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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