{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including transaction-utils.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-191909 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-2025-191909 is a malicious package in transaction-utils, published on 21 Feb 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-191909 is a malicious package: transaction-utils (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-2025-191909/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191909/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-191909","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191909/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-191909","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 only thing the package does is send out all the given data about a cryptocurrency transaction, including the private key, to a hardcoded webhook.\n\nFeedback from PyPI Team: the package \"transaction-utils\" may also exploit a known pip behavior to overwrite files of an existing legitime package and replace it with malicious content.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-02-transaction-utils\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - crypto-related\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n - A Telegram webhook is used to send collected data.","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 transaction-utils (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-191909","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":"transaction-utils","purl":"pkg:pypi/transaction-utils","source":"MAL-2025-191909"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-02-21","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-2025-191909/"}