# MAL-2025-2602: Malicious code in connector-bsb (PyPI)


- **Type:** Malicious package
- **Package:** `connector-bsb` (PyPI)
- **Published:** 19 Mar 2025

## What is MAL-2025-2602?

MAL-2025-2602 is a malicious package in connector-bsb, published on 19 Mar 2025. 

### Official description

This package seems to be part of a larger malicious toolkit designed for unauthorized access to systems, data theft, and potentially acting as a placeholder for making calls across other malicious packages.

## What should I do about MAL-2025-2602?

Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
MAL-2025-2602 is a malicious package: connector-bsb (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-2025-2602/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-2602/index.md)
```

## Sources

- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-2602

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-2602/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.