{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including security-research-startup-snapshot-810764b303.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-18098 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-2026-18098 is a malicious package in security-research-startup-snapshot-810764b303, published on 20 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-18098 is a malicious package: security-research-startup-snapshot-810764b303 (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-2026-18098/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-18098/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-18098","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-18098/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-18098","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 is most likely a reconnaissance of a shared infrastructure, collecting potentially sensitive data from cloud endpoints, activated via a PTH file on every Python loading. Collected data are stored in a local filesystem, suggesting the operator has to have some degree of control of the environment.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-10-omeraf\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - exfiltration-cloud-tokens\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n - other\n\n - abuses-pth","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 security-research-startup-snapshot-810764b303 (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-18098","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":"security-research-startup-snapshot-810764b303","purl":"pkg:pypi/security-research-startup-snapshot-810764b303","source":"MAL-2026-18098"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-20","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-2026-18098/"}