MAL-2024-12329

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/pwnstar-lib/MAL-2024-12329.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2024-12329
Published
2024-09-06T11:29:16Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:41:50.880502Z
Summary
Malicious code in pwnstar-lib (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (0b5a94b7cc47cb91bf552abe43f1a0d078ed5c6e668c5ff4caa8c4d9f6d14177)

Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.

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

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • exfiltration-generic

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

  • typosquatting

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "sha256": "b3dac5dfd9f2bf5f95ad7a7588b51d247f703eb4e881afd67bc6f53b046be708",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/pwnstar-lib",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.451529597Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "0b5a94b7cc47cb91bf552abe43f1a0d078ed5c6e668c5ff4caa8c4d9f6d14177",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/pwnstar-lib",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.474820214Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "ea6fc7d7146c4ac70dab83c40b4d4095fdba3bd615db80fba2860d655083940b",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-09-06T11:29:16Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-questionable-pentest/pwnstar-lib",
            "versions": [
                "1.5",
                "1.6",
                "1.7",
                "1.8",
                "1.9",
                "2.0",
                "2.1",
                "2.3",
                "2.4"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.691316501Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / pwnstar-lib

Package

Name
pwnstar-lib
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Purl
pkg:pypi/pwnstar-lib

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.5
1.6
1.7
1.8
1.9
2.*
2.0
2.1
2.3
2.4

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/pwnstar-lib/MAL-2024-12329.json"