{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including smtblib.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-192579 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-2025-192579 is a malicious package in smtblib, published on 15 Dec 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-192579 is a malicious package: smtblib (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-2025-192579/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-192579/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-192579","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-192579/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-192579","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Malicious copy of a standard library module that during class initialization downloads and executes remote code and after that attempts to cover its tracks by overwriting itself with non-malicious code. The remote code aims to collect and exfiltrate sensitive Telegram session files.\n\nThis campaign shares infrastructure and basic methods with previous 2025-11-uzip campaign.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-12-smtblib\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.\n\n - infostealer\n\n - target:telegram\n\n - exfiltration-credentials\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n - covering-tracks\n\n - clones-real-package\n\n - typosquatting","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 smtblib (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-192579","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":"smtblib","purl":"pkg:pypi/smtblib","source":"MAL-2025-192579"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-12-15","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-2025-192579/"}