{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including pipspeed.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10213 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-2026-10213 is a malicious package in pipspeed, published on 12 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10213 is a malicious package: pipspeed (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-2026-10213/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10213/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10213","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10213/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10213","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"The package's advertised public entry point pipspeed._optimize() GETs a JSON document from https://www.jsonkeeper.com/b/53XMN (an anonymous, mutable paste host) and reads `package`, `function`, and `args` fields from the response. It then runs `pip install \u003cpackage\u003e` via subprocess, `importlib.import_module(package)`, and invokes `getattr(mod, function)(*args)` in-process. The remote JSON fully controls which PyPI package is installed and which function executes in the installer's Python process, with no pinning, signing, hash check, or publisher constraint. Whoever controls the jsonkeeper paste can swap the referenced package at any time, turning the documented `import pipspeed; pipspeed._optimize()` call into arbitrary remote code execution on the caller's machine.\n\nFake package with hidden code downloading configuration from a remote location. It defines the next package to install and run. During analysis, the package instructed to install did not exist.\n\nFirst discovered by Amazon Inspector.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-07-pipspeed\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage","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 pipspeed (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-10213","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"malicious","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":null,"products":[],"type":null,"year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":null,"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":[],"introduced":[],"last_affected":[],"package":"pipspeed","purl":"pkg:pypi/pipspeed","source":"MAL-2026-10213"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-12","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-2026-10213/"}