{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including netspear.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-5121 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-2025-5121 is a malicious package in netspear, published on 15 May 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-5121 is a malicious package: netspear (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-2025-5121/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-5121/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-5121","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-5121/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-5121","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Code download and runs an executable, which is widely recognized as malware. The system is also configured to run it on startup, and the file is saved in paths attempting to look as a system file.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-05-requestpackat\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n - malware\n\n - peristence-autorun","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 netspear (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-5121","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":"netspear","purl":"pkg:pypi/netspear","source":"MAL-2025-5121"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-05-15","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-2025-5121/"}