{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including pythonhttp.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-2993 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-2025-2993 is a malicious package in pythonhttp, published on 4 Mar 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-2993 is a malicious package: pythonhttp (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-2025-2993/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-2993/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-2993","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-2993/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-2993","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 starts a heavily obfuscated Powershell Script that attempts to (at least) overwrite copied crypto wallets\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-03-pythonhttp\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n - obfuscation\n\n - malware\n\n - crypto-related","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 pythonhttp (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-2993","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":"pythonhttp","purl":"pkg:pypi/pythonhttp","source":"MAL-2025-2993"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-03-04","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-2025-2993/"}