MAL-2025-1982 Malicious code in mlc-ai-nightly-rocm62 (PyPI)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2025-1982 is a malicious package: mlc-ai-nightly-rocm62 (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-2025-1982/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-1982/index.md)
- Package
- mlc-ai-nightly-rocm62
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2025-1982?
MAL-2025-1982 is a malicious package in mlc-ai-nightly-rocm62, published on 21 Jan 2025.
Official description
Installing the package exfiltrates information about the host, including environmental variables.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2025-01-mlc-ai-nightly
Reasons (based on the campaign):
The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
exfiltration-env-variables
dependency-confusion
What should I do about MAL-2025-1982?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.