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Incident detail

criticalpypi·credential theft·osv

Malicious code in ckanext-dms (PyPI)

ckanext-dms

Risk score

92

AI summary

Indexed incident for ckanext-dms (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.

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'ckanext-dms' @ 0.1.1 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.

Technical details

Affected versions

=0.1.0=0.1.1

Indicators

  • affected version=0.1.075%
  • affected version=0.1.175%

Timeline

  1. Advisory published
  2. Indexed by ThreatPkg

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