MAL-2025-1993

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/requestsa/MAL-2025-1993.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-1993
Published
2025-01-25T16:53:01Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:56:24Z
Summary
Malicious code in requestsa (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (0225bc4f200eb1897522fdfd971233a6c0e06527d802f2574ed4c31e618b1966)

Clone of the requests package that modified the code to send all get and post requests to a hardcoded URL

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

Campaign: 2025-01-rqsts

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • clones-real-package

  • dependency-confusion

  • action-hidden-in-lib-usage

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins":  [
        {
            "id":  "RLMA-2025-01236",
            "import_time":  "2025-03-03T15:07:17.170860767Z",
            "modified_time":  "2025-03-03T13:45:16Z",
            "sha256":  "8e1380589cc4dd002f191d1a06473a55488c4ce13e44b7e5da52b0cd45c5b439",
            "source":  "reversing-labs",
            "versions":  [
                "2.28.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "pypi/2025-01-rqsts/requestsa",
            "import_time":  "2025-12-02T22:30:55.539617281Z",
            "modified_time":  "2025-01-25T16:53:01Z",
            "ranges":  [
                {
                    "events":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type":  "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256":  "c492d8af9b616cd1121365e6ea6bd3fe9aa68570be57e3282c99b03fdc269c0c",
            "source":  "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id":  "pypi/2025-01-rqsts/requestsa",
            "import_time":  "2025-12-02T23:07:18.57868926Z",
            "modified_time":  "2025-01-25T16:53:01Z",
            "ranges":  [
                {
                    "events":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type":  "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256":  "0225bc4f200eb1897522fdfd971233a6c0e06527d802f2574ed4c31e618b1966",
            "source":  "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id":  "pypi/2025-01-rqsts/requestsa",
            "import_time":  "2025-12-10T21:38:57.786573483Z",
            "modified_time":  "2025-01-25T16:53:01Z",
            "sha256":  "2228f15a98280da1e4fc798a03eaf079a967a53b536c20207e330b594e670e07",
            "source":  "kam193",
            "versions":  [
                "2.28.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "RLUA-2026-00710",
            "import_time":  "2026-03-19T12:20:22.926195858Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-03-18T12:18:15Z",
            "sha256":  "ce496b07dde7e7fa43f417983b4508b19f553aec1267283f172ccf42500448d9",
            "source":  "reversing-labs"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / requestsa

Package

Name
requestsa
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Purl
pkg:pypi/requestsa

Affected ranges

Affected versions

2.*
2.28.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/requestsa/MAL-2025-1993.json"