# MAL-2024-5101: Malicious code in easyhttprequest (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `easyhttprequest` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 25 Jun 2024
- **Also known as:** SNYK-PYTHON-EASYHTTPREQUEST-6139264

## What is MAL-2024-5101?

MAL-2024-5101 is a malicious package in easyhttprequest, published on 25 Jun 2024. 

### Official description

Clone of the requests package. During installation, it downloads a git repository and attempts to execute a script from its commit message

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

Campaign: 2023-12-09-easyhttprequest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

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

 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.

 - clones-real-package

## What should I do about MAL-2024-5101?

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-2024-5101 is a malicious package: easyhttprequest (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-2024-5101/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-5101/index.md)
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## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2024-5101

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2024-5101/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.