{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including memtools.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-6549 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-2025-6549 is a malicious package in memtools, published on 16 Jul 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-6549 is a malicious package: memtools (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-2025-6549/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-6549/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-6549","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-6549/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-6549","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 triggers a code that looks like downloading a picture, but in fact downloads and starts an executable with malware. Note that file supplied from the URL differs depending on the presence of the special header\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-07-memlib\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 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n - malware","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 memtools (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-6549","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":"memtools","purl":"pkg:pypi/memtools","source":"MAL-2025-6549"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-07-16","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-2025-6549/"}