{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including voltswannts.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-17920 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-2026-17920 is a malicious package in voltswannts, published on 17 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-17920 is a malicious package: voltswannts (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-2026-17920/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17920/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-17920","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-17920/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-17920","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 voltswannts 0.1.0 on PyPI contains 6 scanned files with no behaviors indicating supply-chain attack against installers. No install-time or import-time network activity, no credential or filesystem reads targeting installer secrets, no shell execution of fetched content, no lifecycle or build-backend side effects, and no obfuscated payloads were observed.\n\nThe package belongs to a series of packages falsely advertising 'audio-analysis profiles' loader. In fact, the only purpose is to execute remote code, but the URL is not embedded in the package. It is likely a continuation of the coin-mining campaign 2026-10-voxeval which used similar wording.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-10-emberlytts\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - other\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.","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 voltswannts (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-17920","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":"voltswannts","purl":"pkg:pypi/voltswannts","source":"MAL-2026-17920"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-17","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-2026-17920/"}