{"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":"2026-09-18T16:45:07.619739215Z","published":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"sha256":"78e2603982fe3e4eb29d1da111fc4abe760e23b2d162b35d7b04063dc91d7998","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:56.066423673Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"sha256":"73ea760146181d2911e0823c121502506892b2e63d3fc20d6281fb2c86e03de8","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:19.256820011Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"sha256":"8bc4c59155ce2dd5d2609c5bacfb1c32de2bbea1eace2ab28d560ba2df228bc1","source":"kam193","versions":["9999","99999999"],"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:58.399583992Z","modified_time":"2024-07-26T16:53:30Z"},{"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","import_time":"2026-09-18T15:39:17.002234813Z","modified_time":"2026-09-18T15:04:57.904525Z","sha256":"043660360a686e9bd7c1190a91406c5aff3681ebae58721670e48c9ab8cfe47f","source":"kam193","versions":["0.2.7","9999","99999999"]},{"versions":["9999","99999999"],"id":"pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/google-cloud-datacatalog-lineage-producer-client","import_time":"2026-09-18T16:39:56.941346271Z","modified_time":"2026-09-18T15:04:57.904525Z","sha256":"0716659b0ffbb5dd3f57243f53e63cdfae3725f7f870b2e1243a4f780142460a","source":"kam193"}]},"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","0.2.7"],"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":"1.9.0","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"}]}