{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including mlc-ai-nightly-cu123.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-1981 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-2025-1981 is a malicious package in mlc-ai-nightly-cu123, published on 21 Jan 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-1981 is a malicious package: mlc-ai-nightly-cu123 (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-2025-1981/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-1981/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-1981","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-1981/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-1981","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Installing the package exfiltrates information about the host, including environmental variables.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-01-mlc-ai-nightly\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n - dependency-confusion","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 mlc-ai-nightly-cu123 (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-1981","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":"mlc-ai-nightly-cu123","purl":"pkg:pypi/mlc-ai-nightly-cu123","source":"MAL-2025-1981"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-01-21","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-2025-1981/"}