MAL-2025-191805 Malicious code in nspacercesolve (PyPI)
- Package
- nspacercesolve
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2025-191805?
MAL-2025-191805 is a malicious package in nspacercesolve, published on 22 Nov 2025.
Official description
During installation, the package looks for a flag file and exfiltrates it. Similar content is in the main file. There is no other purpose of the package
Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.
Campaign: 2025-11-nspacercesolve
Reasons (based on the campaign):
The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
other
The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
What should I do about MAL-2025-191805?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.