{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including colotama.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2024-11560 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.","what":"MAL-2024-11560 is a malicious package in colotama, published on 29 Sep 2024."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2024-11560 is a malicious package: colotama (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.\n\nTask:\n1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.\n3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.\n4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-11560/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-11560/index.md)","id":"MAL-2024-11560","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-11560/index.md","name":"MAL-2024-11560","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The pyprettifier library has a feature to send out the user home path throuh the logger. It's attached to the __init__ of EmojiConverter class. Other related packages utilize a typosquatting to imitate real packages, and attempts to call the EmojiConverter from pyprettifier, triggering notifying the author about the user's home path.\n\n---\n\nCategory: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research \u0026 co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.\n\nCampaign: 2024-09-pyprettifier\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - typosquatting\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'colotama' @ 0.4.8 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":null,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":null,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":null,"nuclei":null,"refs":[],"tier":null},"has_fix":false,"headline":"Malicious code in colotama (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2024-11560","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2024"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"colotama","purl":"pkg:pypi/colotama","source":"MAL-2024-11560"}],"products":null,"published":"2024-09-29","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"OpenSSF Malicious Packages","prefix":"MAL"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":null,"updated":null,"vendors":null},"summary":null,"url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-11560/"}