{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including web3socket.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-3017 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-2025-3017 is a malicious package in web3socket, published on 17 Feb 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-3017 is a malicious package: web3socket (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-2025-3017/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-3017/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-3017","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-3017/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-3017","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"web3socket: In the class there is a hidden code that loads a binary Python code from a remote location impersonating PyPI Github account\nweb3node: The package is used to download and run remote code by other packages. Files darwin.py, gnu.py and win32.py contain code that adds executing remote code to the crontab as well as an attempt to escalate privileges.\nw3socket: It uses web3node to start remote code in config.py\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-02-web3socket\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - dependency-confusion\n\n - impersonation\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.","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 web3socket (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-3017","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":"web3socket","purl":"pkg:pypi/web3socket","source":"MAL-2025-3017"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-02-17","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-2025-3017/"}