{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including soopsocks.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-191872 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-2025-191872 is a malicious package in soopsocks, published on 26 Sep 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-191872 is a malicious package: soopsocks (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-2025-191872/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191872/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-191872","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191872/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-191872","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The package promise creating a SOCKS proxy and report the server to a Discord webhook. And indeed appears to do so, but the attached autorun service seems to be a malware\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-09-soopsocks\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - malware","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 soopsocks (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-191872","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":"soopsocks","purl":"pkg:pypi/soopsocks","source":"MAL-2025-191872"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-09-26","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-2025-191872/"}