MAL-2025-192609

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/f5rest/MAL-2025-192609.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-192609
Published
2025-12-18T19:50:55Z
Modified
2025-12-18T21:00:15.565398Z
Summary
Malicious code in f5rest (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (f8084e3c4c369a7dc22b67657aa22f3faf8e9b98df2721c9ff4e4c17d36fe028)

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.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "modified_time": "2025-12-18T19:50:55.322365Z",
            "versions": [
                "99.0.0"
            ],
            "sha256": "f8084e3c4c369a7dc22b67657aa22f3faf8e9b98df2721c9ff4e4c17d36fe028",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/f5rest",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-18T20:37:39.793917888Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / f5rest

Package

Name
f5rest
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Purl
pkg:pypi/f5rest

Affected ranges

Affected versions

99.*
99.0.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/f5rest/MAL-2025-192609.json"