MAL-2025-41755

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/rtxt-dep3/MAL-2025-41755.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-41755
Published
2024-07-26T16:53:30Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:56:43Z
Summary
Malicious code in rtxt-dep3 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (c9452c218f473489657ae73882d2b63b23ea6349c2d4da8bf5fe393f9ef69bbf)

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":  [
        {
            "id":  "RLMA-2025-04250",
            "import_time":  "2025-08-29T06:41:52.970376144Z",
            "modified_time":  "2025-08-28T07:11:50Z",
            "sha256":  "6bb8cf9565491216972397193b19116a7d443f32ae4680722f8c259abd60611c",
            "source":  "reversing-labs",
            "versions":  [
                "3.3.7"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep3",
            "import_time":  "2025-12-02T22:30:56.381086393Z",
            "modified_time":  "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "ranges":  [
                {
                    "events":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type":  "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256":  "72cd069f18d09ad432d06e3ef414186794031c4d5856346d49b480ad4adb5302",
            "source":  "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id":  "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep3",
            "import_time":  "2025-12-02T23:07:19.568448854Z",
            "modified_time":  "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "ranges":  [
                {
                    "events":  [
                        {
                            "introduced":  "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type":  "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256":  "c9452c218f473489657ae73882d2b63b23ea6349c2d4da8bf5fe393f9ef69bbf",
            "source":  "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id":  "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep3",
            "import_time":  "2025-12-10T21:38:58.671626593Z",
            "modified_time":  "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "sha256":  "d8dd6cf72aea24d8c771e739fcef15a3f1738ffdfefcd04a7cc0a4c45e049717",
            "source":  "kam193",
            "versions":  [
                "3.3.7"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "RLUA-2026-00736",
            "import_time":  "2026-03-19T12:20:25.439444082Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-03-18T12:18:33Z",
            "sha256":  "b8314e14047b65604b20626eec1c14be2ce3e2aa7073bc45f35d022d423e926b",
            "source":  "reversing-labs"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / rtxt-dep3

Package

Name
rtxt-dep3
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Purl
pkg:pypi/rtxt-dep3

Affected ranges

Affected versions

3.*
3.3.7

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/rtxt-dep3/MAL-2025-41755.json"