{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including updateuuid4.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-191917 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-2025-191917 is a malicious package in updateuuid4, published on 8 Feb 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-191917 is a malicious package: updateuuid4 (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-2025-191917/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191917/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-191917","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191917/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-191917","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, with an innocent looking name, has as the only functionality reporting to a Telegram channel given username and password. The functionality is in the \"HeadersUpdate\" class, that also looks like attempting to look innocent. The code does nothing more than reporting given credentials through a bot using the name \"hitlercute_bot\".\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-02-updateuuid4\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - infostealer","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 updateuuid4 (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-191917","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":"updateuuid4","purl":"pkg:pypi/updateuuid4","source":"MAL-2025-191917"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-02-08","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-2025-191917/"}