MAL-2025-2938

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/asyncconfigreader/MAL-2025-2938.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-2938
Published
2025-02-13T13:18:05Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:35:45.256555Z
Summary
Malicious code in asyncconfigreader (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (1c563ba469b1149ae0a06684eb3db69c618ec0780f66670b8183a874ef78d9c3)

Infostealer with multiple possibilities, but not auto-activating on installation. There are already multiple attempts to publish it, with different innocent-looking names.

The campaign contains the with Infostealer itself and packages that include it as dependency and triggered.

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

Campaign: 2025-02-multis

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • infostealer

  • The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "id": "RLMA-2025-01936",
            "import_time": "2025-03-31T07:07:04.651345011Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-03-28T13:05:20Z",
            "sha256": "9894dcea463cc7c5faa3136f43bfd48fda2e3444a7528df8ef58b2b46a7e97ae",
            "versions": [
                "0.5",
                "0.6"
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-multis/asyncconfigreader",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:54.95049217Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-13T13:18:05Z",
            "sha256": "44e284f4756413649d8c3e3718a0a5ecd3b604829d4b404ea162a92ee87a7d38",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-multis/asyncconfigreader",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:17.990176556Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-13T13:18:05Z",
            "sha256": "1c563ba469b1149ae0a06684eb3db69c618ec0780f66670b8183a874ef78d9c3",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-multis/asyncconfigreader",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.295698844Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-13T13:18:05Z",
            "sha256": "9dd8ec3b1cd4387fe4f10d4575574ab7f354a94186c0c113c90d9944ee69bd18",
            "versions": [
                "0.5",
                "0.6"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / asyncconfigreader

Package

Name
asyncconfigreader
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Purl
pkg:pypi/asyncconfigreader

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.5
0.6

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/asyncconfigreader/MAL-2025-2938.json"