MAL-2025-1981

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/mlc-ai-nightly-cu123/MAL-2025-1981.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-1981
Published
2025-01-21T18:27:56Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:55:02.391445Z
Summary
Malicious code in mlc-ai-nightly-cu123 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (9c2954c829994eac2d7a1843849faec71a96ff47fdd4d6ac9453b654df2aedbf)

Installing the package exfiltrates information about the host, including environmental variables.

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

Campaign: 2025-01-mlc-ai-nightly

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.

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • dependency-confusion

Database specific 
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            "id": "RLMA-2025-01222",
            "import_time": "2025-03-03T15:07:15.802530006Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-03-03T13:45:01Z",
            "versions": [
                "9.9.9"
            ],
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "b7c79be4c0b55a376fa4ed2cc2e8abd9e254a6471fcc6a947fc5040d8ac1b12a",
            "id": "pypi/2025-01-mlc-ai-nightly/mlc-ai-nightly-cu123",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.33987239Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-01-21T18:27:56Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "9c2954c829994eac2d7a1843849faec71a96ff47fdd4d6ac9453b654df2aedbf",
            "id": "pypi/2025-01-mlc-ai-nightly/mlc-ai-nightly-cu123",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.369375966Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-01-21T18:27:56Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "257a4f5b4aee2be9029a003c99c83864ce5c66f5d3dcfdef15f4550cc476ebee",
            "id": "pypi/2025-01-mlc-ai-nightly/mlc-ai-nightly-cu123",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.595303618Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-01-21T18:27:56Z",
            "versions": [
                "9.9.9"
            ],
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "4f9b15a5b568395083c347c61181f35599537f8b098bbd78630c5ce418ee80df",
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00526",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:20:05.159776355Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:16:10Z",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        }
    ],
    "iocs": {
        "domains": [
            "depcon.buzz"
        ]
    }
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / mlc-ai-nightly-cu123

Package

Name
mlc-ai-nightly-cu123
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Purl
pkg:pypi/mlc-ai-nightly-cu123

Affected ranges

Affected versions

9.*
9.9.9

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/mlc-ai-nightly-cu123/MAL-2025-1981.json"