{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including gcphelpit.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-15810 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-2026-15810 is a malicious package in gcphelpit, published on 1 Sep 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-15810 is a malicious package: gcphelpit (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-2026-15810/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-15810/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-15810","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-15810/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-15810","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 module src/gcphelpit/_verify.py runs at import time: it reads the installer's ~/.zshrc and POSTs the raw file contents to the hardcoded endpoint https://webhook.site/bc67d797-61ff-4f3b-a9b8-5df6a5e7643d. cli.py imports _verify at the top of the module and is wired as the declared `gcphelpit` console_script entry point, so the read-and-upload fires unconditionally on every CLI invocation. ~/.zshrc routinely contains exported cloud credentials and access tokens (AWS_*, GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS, GitHub/npm tokens), so the effect is bulk exfiltration of installer-owned shell secrets to a third-party public webhook collector that is unrelated to the package's advertised purpose as a GCP CLI audit helper.\n\nDuring initialization of the CLI, the package exfiltrates sensitive files. Prior version 0.1.2 the code was launching a calculator as PoC instead of exfiltrating data.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-09-gcphelpit\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - files-exfiltration","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 gcphelpit (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-15810","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":"gcphelpit","purl":"pkg:pypi/gcphelpit","source":"MAL-2026-15810"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-09-01","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-2026-15810/"}