# MAL-2024-12329: Malicious code in pwnstar-lib (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `pwnstar-lib` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 6 Sep 2024

## What is MAL-2024-12329?

MAL-2024-12329 is a malicious package in pwnstar-lib, published on 6 Sep 2024. 

### Official description

Generic campaign for all (likely) research / pentests, where the amount or art of collected data raises questions about the privacy, security and ethical side.

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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

 - exfiltration-env-variables

 - exfiltration-generic

 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

 - typosquatting

## What should I do about MAL-2024-12329?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2024-12329 is a malicious package: pwnstar-lib (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.

Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-12329/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-12329/index.md)
```

## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2024-12329

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-12329/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.