{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including kvstore-pb2-grpc.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-1433 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-2026-1433 is a malicious package in kvstore-pb2-grpc, published on 15 Mar 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-1433 is a malicious package: kvstore-pb2-grpc (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-2026-1433/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-1433/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-1433","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-1433/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-1433","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 import, package decrypts and runs a malicious executable. The executable is hidden in an encoded and xored form in the JSON resource file.\n\nThis is a follow up of the campaign 2026-03-fastapi-middleware-cors\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-03-ariadne-federation\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - malware\n\n - obfuscation\n\n - dependency-confusion\n\n - typosquatting","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 kvstore-pb2-grpc (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-1433","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":"kvstore-pb2-grpc","purl":"pkg:pypi/kvstore-pb2-grpc","source":"MAL-2026-1433"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-03-15","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-2026-1433/"}