MAL-2025-191920 Malicious code in venomenallib (PyPI)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2025-191920 is a malicious package: venomenallib (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.
Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191920/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-191920/index.md)
- Package
- venomenallib
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2025-191920?
MAL-2025-191920 is a malicious package in venomenallib, published on 9 Sep 2025.
Official description
Package is prepared to exfiltrate sensitive files. Different packages use different places for the malicious code: it runs during importing the module, is placed in a native binary, or in the setup.py script
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-08-xenlib
Reasons (based on the campaign):
- files-exfiltration
What should I do about MAL-2025-191920?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.