{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including sqiul83.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2025-6596 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-2025-6596 is a malicious package in sqiul83, published on 26 Jun 2025."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2025-6596 is a malicious package: sqiul83 (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-2025-6596/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-6596/index.md)","id":"MAL-2025-6596","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2025-6596/index.md","name":"MAL-2025-6596","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"During installation of the source package, it attempts to silently download and start a remote executable. At the time of analysis, the downloading link did not work.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2025-06-sqiul83\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.","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 sqiul83 (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2025-6596","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":"sqiul83","purl":"pkg:pypi/sqiul83","source":"MAL-2025-6596"}],"products":null,"published":"2025-06-26","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-2025-6596/"}