MAL-2026-14069

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/kb-ai/MAL-2026-14069.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-14069
Published
2026-08-16T19:31:26Z
Modified
2026-08-16T19:45:09.834952101Z
Summary
Malicious code in kb-ai (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (edd64785c168e513c50673e9b031048ba592c1460a9a952f9430feb83bf5042d)

The main purpose of the package is to demonstrate a dependency confusion attack. The rest of the functionality is just a stub.

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": [
        {
            "import_time": "2026-08-16T19:40:05.442990443Z",
            "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/kb-ai",
            "sha256": "edd64785c168e513c50673e9b031048ba592c1460a9a952f9430feb83bf5042d",
            "modified_time": "2026-08-16T19:31:26.223185Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.1.0",
                "0.1.1"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / kb-ai

Package

Name
kb-ai
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Purl
pkg:pypi/kb-ai

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.0
0.1.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/kb-ai/MAL-2026-14069.json"