MAL-2025-5132

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/saml-helper/MAL-2025-5132.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-5132
Published
2024-07-26T16:53:30Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:56:57.371608Z
Summary
Malicious code in saml-helper (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (2b054dba9521b1260174fa01f3f7ba51d88bd51e53c481675ed967271304a63f)

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 
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        {
            "id": "RLMA-2025-03029",
            "sha256": "2fd5325ea1bdab3a34b47c7e78f3c035f1479808c746c6e39b26c023ee517e1f",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "versions": [
                "2.3.1",
                "2.5.3",
                "2.5.4"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-06-18T10:15:21Z",
            "import_time": "2025-06-18T15:06:03.046207355Z"
        },
        {
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/saml-helper",
            "sha256": "227adfac43512ee4f67aeb5913e27d86b6950e3f7dc888f850c03cb5e2c8d185",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.388241666Z"
        },
        {
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/saml-helper",
            "sha256": "2b054dba9521b1260174fa01f3f7ba51d88bd51e53c481675ed967271304a63f",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.575457828Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/saml-helper",
            "sha256": "53cae38df3fb11b7030ee7fe4f309882710fc79fe2375dd5f1e0e64b91853fbc",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "2.3.1",
                "2.5.4"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.677987137Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00744",
            "sha256": "9e7270cb0378022527e2712743992aef4cf5ed526770e35f6efb2d24d1866354",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:18:38Z",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:20:26.255819944Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / saml-helper

Package

Name
saml-helper
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Purl
pkg:pypi/saml-helper

Affected ranges

Affected versions

2.*
2.3.1
2.5.3
2.5.4

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/saml-helper/MAL-2025-5132.json"