MAL-2026-18750

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/qzc690383/MAL-2026-18750.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-18750
Published
2026-11-07T10:21:28Z
Modified
2026-11-07T10:45:03Z
Summary
Malicious code in qzc690383 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (d4b997b7e9404963bfb44f2179abe28dd5238feac452fcce4b77fc945c430c06)

On pip install, setup.py executes shell commands to collect installer host identifiers (id, whoami, hostname, uname, nvidia-smi output, /proc/1/cmdline) and issues an outbound curl to https://api.ip.sb/ip to retrieve the installer's public IP. The collected fingerprint is base64-encoded and smuggled as 40-character-chunk model names into POST requests to a local Xinference server at http://127.0.0.1:9997/v1/model_registrations/flexible, using xinference.model.flexible.launchers.transformers_launcher as the launcher reference, so an operator with access to that Xinference instance can retrieve the host fingerprint by listing registered models. The build-command guard only skips metadata-only invocations, so the reconnaissance fires on a plain install. The package ships no real library functionality — the install-time code is the entire payload.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-022546",
            "import_time": "2026-11-07T10:36:42.73214866Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-11-07T10:21:28Z",
            "sha256": "d4b997b7e9404963bfb44f2179abe28dd5238feac452fcce4b77fc945c430c06",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / qzc690383

Package

Name
qzc690383
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Purl
pkg:pypi/qzc690383

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*
1.0.0

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": [
        {
            "artifacts": [
                "qzc690383-1.0.0.tar.gz"
            ],
            "path": "setup.py",
            "sha256": "1d626adb1937659b2e35a3df7c31094f1776cbdc13743ff5a42fac236d1b1d43",
            "tlsh": "b4515545d8365963b3cb58e4248a8433a3569f1b8a117c24ba9c4b7c1f8c07ce7b35b6"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "qzc690383-1.0.0.tar.gz",
            "hashes": {
                "blake2b_256": "740d96b5f5dcb54a4563b6ef19cb7ae15d4d55c5b386e882e4d251d7e39f6f67",
                "md5": "0eae3b6ac2446c9faffcc1b9ae4de08a",
                "sha256": "46a8c7685d1be13a0d6e7ee145a972e39b77299ecb205fa20d975324beb951bf"
            }
        }
    ]
}
source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/qzc690383/MAL-2026-18750.json"