MAL-2025-128

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/pyqubee/MAL-2025-128.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-128
Published
2024-07-26T16:53:30Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:42:02.384607Z
Summary
Malicious code in pyqubee (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (f966d9bb86511c937bd68311d8a63c9a6e06dfdd7947b56f6f43f2c75504ae7d)

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.

Source: ossf-package-analysis (989f0ca58fc60013559b95cadc24b743ad1255ae87ea38ec31f93c0ee949424e)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'pyqubee' @ 12.1.1 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.
Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "versions": [
                "12.1.1"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-01-16T15:55:53Z",
            "sha256": "989f0ca58fc60013559b95cadc24b743ad1255ae87ea38ec31f93c0ee949424e",
            "source": "ossf-package-analysis",
            "import_time": "2025-01-16T16:06:02.263148409Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "16a85ea1f409cc784761b991e969d6f62c5bc740f65a68a5f9ec04a6e5fa275f",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/pyqubee",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.32750099Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "f966d9bb86511c937bd68311d8a63c9a6e06dfdd7947b56f6f43f2c75504ae7d",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/pyqubee",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.517573562Z"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "11.35.1",
                "12.1.1"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256": "3e9283f7f2d0986e10dfdfb86c05d0625b3b92bac1f994e8567e711326250070",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/pyqubee",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.628367617Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / pyqubee

Package

Name
pyqubee
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Purl
pkg:pypi/pyqubee

Affected ranges

Affected versions

11.*
11.35.1
12.*
12.1.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/pyqubee/MAL-2025-128.json"