Supply-chain threat intelligence

Incident detail

criticalpypi·credential theft·osv

Malicious code in phabricator-client (PyPI)

phabricator-client

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for phabricator-client (pypi).

Description

Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.


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-standard-pypi-install-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

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

Technical details

Affected versions

=99.0.0=99.0.1=99.0.2=99.0.3=99.0.4

Indicators

  • affected version=99.0.075%
  • affected version=99.0.175%
  • affected version=99.0.275%
  • affected version=99.0.375%
  • affected version=99.0.475%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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