{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including voxel-tts.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-17461 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-2026-17461 is a malicious package in voxel-tts, published on 3 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-17461 is a malicious package: voxel-tts (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-2026-17461/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17461/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-17461","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17461/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-17461","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 advertises text-to-speech inference but contains no model, audio, or inference code. Importing voxel_tts loads voxel_tts/harness.py, which instantiates a module-level Harness(); on run() it chmods and executes a bundled ~8MB ELF at voxel_tts/bin/voxel-core. The ELF is invoked with a JSON configuration matching the XMRig-family CPU mining schema (pools/user/pass/keepalive/tls, cpu.threads, cpu.mem-locked, cache-budget), and the pool-protocol key 'pools' is split across string concatenation to evade static scanners. The pool destination is reconstructed at runtime by base64-decoding two fragments ('MTg1LjE5NA==', 'MTc3LjI0OQ==') and joining them with '.', yielding 185.194.177.249:443. A 40MB cloudflared binary is also bundled at voxel_tts/bin/cloudflared and launched as 'cloudflared access tcp --hostname \u003chost\u003e --url 127.0.0.1:\u003cport\u003e' so that outbound mining traffic egresses through Cloudflare Access to an author-controlled hostname, hiding the real pool IP from host network logs; in-code comments acknowledge this is to avoid 'direct egress to the coordinator's own address'. In parallel, a _Progress helper emits synthetic 'model | step N/250000 loss=... tok/s=... lr=6e-5 ep=...' lines once per minute as a cover story to make the workload appear to be ML training. Net effect: installing and using this package runs a cryptominer on the installer's CPU, monetizing their compute for the author, while actively evading detection via destination obfuscation, tunneled egress, and a fabricated training-progress UI.\n\nThe package imitates real activity and instead deploys a coin miner.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-10-voxeval\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - cryptominer","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 voxel-tts (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-17461","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":"voxel-tts","purl":"pkg:pypi/voxel-tts","source":"MAL-2026-17461"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-03","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-2026-17461/"}