{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including discordia-telemetria.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-10702 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-2026-10702 is a malicious package in discordia-telemetria, published on 16 Jul 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-10702 is a malicious package: discordia-telemetria (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-2026-10702/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10702/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-10702","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-10702/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-10702","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"setup.py contains a base64-encoded shell command that decodes to a curl fetch of an opaque binary from https://gaming-telemetry.com/v1/download, chmods it executable, and runs it. The payload invocation _run_payload(\"module\") is called at top-level module scope and is additionally wired into CustomInstall, CustomBuildPy, and CustomDevelop cmdclasses so it fires on any pip install, build, or develop path. The fetch destination is not a publisher-owned domain, the fetched bytes are not pinned or hash-verified, and the shell command is deliberately hidden behind base64 encoding. Installing this package hands remote code execution on the installer's machine to whoever controls gaming-telemetry.com.\n\nDuring installation, the package downloads and executes a remote executable. Before 0.1.5, the code contained local-only tests of malicious behaviour.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-07-discord-telemetry\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 discordia-telemetria (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-10702","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":"discordia-telemetria","purl":"pkg:pypi/discordia-telemetria","source":"MAL-2026-10702"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-07-16","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-2026-10702/"}