{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including browser-run.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-191696 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-2025-191696 is a malicious package in browser-run, published on 14 Aug 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-191696 is a malicious package: browser-run (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-2025-191696/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191696/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-191696","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191696/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-191696","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Package uses the name as popular NPM package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-run), but the only thing it does is adding a hardcoded public SSH key and then calling back. This may allow the threat actor to remotely access the machine.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-08-browser-run\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - backdoor\n\n - dependency-confusion\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage","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 browser-run (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-191696","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2025"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"browser-run","purl":"pkg:pypi/browser-run","source":"MAL-2025-191696"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-08-14","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-2025-191696/"}