MAL-2026-16098

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/bq-build-probe-vrp-2026/MAL-2026-16098.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-16098
Published
2026-09-09T19:01:41Z
Modified
2026-09-09T19:30:05Z
Summary
Malicious code in bq-build-probe-vrp-2026 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (46dd2007aa00f3bcd8ad6c767a4f1bf2da7ee75cf91d5b692aec39c546cc1d65)

setup.py executes at pip install and collects a full dump of os.environ, hostname, uid/gid, uname output, /proc/self/cgroup, /proc/version, and the GCE metadata service-account email (http://metadata.google.internal/computeMetadata/v1/instance/service-accounts/default/email), plus sandbox-fingerprinting signals (docker socket presence at /var/run/docker.sock, outbound reachability via socket connect to 8.8.8.8:53). The collected data is written to _build_findings.json inside the installed package, and init.py exposes get_build_findings() to read it back. In a CI/build environment, os.environ typically contains build secrets (CI tokens, cloud credentials, service-account material); embedding that dump inside the built artifact and providing a retrieval API turns any subsequent import or redistribution of the wheel into a channel for the harvested secrets. The package's self-description as authorized VRP testing does not change the mechanism.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins":  [
        {
            "id":  "IN-MAL-2026-019893",
            "import_time":  "2026-09-09T19:14:57.827195476Z",
            "modified_time":  "2026-09-09T19:01:41Z",
            "sha256":  "46dd2007aa00f3bcd8ad6c767a4f1bf2da7ee75cf91d5b692aec39c546cc1d65",
            "source":  "amazon-inspector",
            "versions":  [
                "0.2.0"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / bq-build-probe-vrp-2026

Package

Name
bq-build-probe-vrp-2026
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Purl
pkg:pypi/bq-build-probe-vrp-2026

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.2.0

Database specific

cwes 
[
    {
        "cweId":  "CWE-506",
        "description":  "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature.",
        "name":  "Embedded Malicious Code"
    }
]
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files":  [
        {
            "path":  "setup.py",
            "sha256":  "1abb795299fd30e5e25b86aa6254709e9b5adb80fc8fcd64c6f6a41a84f28e65",
            "tlsh":  "ad6133b1d8254222d2d340ae186dd650e6736f732bd278ac79dda5202f56438b1713de"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity":  [
        {
            "filename":  "bq_build_probe_vrp_2026-0.2.0.tar.gz",
            "hashes":  {
                "blake2b_256":  "957493bf639cc93922358f645f23311caa7447b1233827305b1872bc84ff3de8",
                "md5":  "b82d0f4917f990968a694fad5b4b9f47",
                "sha256":  "9e77b430df2682b4284c0be7ee3b3b22927c52feac1c908cdc1363f9b8acec9f"
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/bq-build-probe-vrp-2026/MAL-2026-16098.json"