{"id":"MAL-2024-12274","summary":"Malicious code in flexssl (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (03236867334bb1faf1e018f54b89046a0edf300be0152c00bf921dadaee600b0)\nInstalling the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: 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.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n","modified":"2025-12-12T20:39:35.491501Z","published":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flexssl","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.047501789Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"766695863729f53855514240c990d1cb9bcb42ab317cb3c1d49aad398f727ea3","source":"kam193"},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flexssl","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.239237462Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"03236867334bb1faf1e018f54b89046a0edf300be0152c00bf921dadaee600b0","source":"kam193"},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/flexssl","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:58.382121486Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","sha256":"8d7f8fa3d57d117b00f8726a3e941261662b602b3ce1ced55c9bd238a8eb54a2","source":"kam193","versions":["2.0.0"]}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/flexssl"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"flexssl","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/flexssl"},"versions":["2.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/flexssl/MAL-2024-12274.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]},{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"ANALYST"}]}