{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including faest.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2024-12269 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-2024-12269 is a malicious package in faest, published on 25 Sep 2024."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2024-12269 is a malicious package: faest (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-2024-12269/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-12269/index.md)","id":"MAL-2024-12269","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-12269/index.md","name":"MAL-2024-12269","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"When using this library to do any request, a \"validate_origin\" function is called (L1320 in _client.py). This method, located in _utils.py, collects all request data, tries also read /etc/shadow using Docker container, and sends them to an endpoint controlled by the package author.\n\nThe package seems to be a clone of httpx and also informs in the README that it's a malicious library, as so, it seems to be a malicious research attempts.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2024-09-old-faest\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n - clones-real-package","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 faest (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2024-12269","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":"faest","purl":"pkg:pypi/faest","source":"MAL-2024-12269"}],"products":null,"published":"2024-09-25","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-2024-12269/"}