{"id":"MAL-2024-12279","summary":"Malicious code in google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (73ea760146181d2911e0823c121502506892b2e63d3fc20d6281fb2c86e03de8)\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":"2025-12-12T20:39:46.192857Z","published":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"sha256":"78e2603982fe3e4eb29d1da111fc4abe760e23b2d162b35d7b04063dc91d7998","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.066423673Z","id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"},{"sha256":"73ea760146181d2911e0823c121502506892b2e63d3fc20d6281fb2c86e03de8","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.256820011Z","id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"},{"versions":["9999","99999999"],"sha256":"8bc4c59155ce2dd5d2609c5bacfb1c32de2bbea1eace2ab28d560ba2df228bc1","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:58.399583992Z","id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","source":"kam193","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client"},"versions":["9999","99999999"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client/MAL-2024-12279.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"}]}