{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including libseal.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-18132 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-2026-18132 is a malicious package in libseal, published on 21 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-18132 is a malicious package: libseal (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-2026-18132/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-18132/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-18132","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-18132/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-18132","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Package libseal version 1.1.1 was scanned across 20 files with no a static rule matches and no traced behaviors indicating installer-side harm. No install-time network I/O, no lifecycle shell execution, no credential or environment scraping, no outbound exfiltration endpoints, no dropper or remote-fetch-and-execute pattern, and no persistence or backdoor code paths were observed.\n\nIn this campaign, one package (iterquarry) holds an encrypted payload, while another one (libseal) provides algorithms to decrypt and execute it. In earlier versions, the code used an embedded key and the payload was contacting a Discord bot. Starting with iterquarry 2.2.0, the key to the encrypted payload is not embedded and the payload remains unknown.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-10-iterquarry\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - obfuscation\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage","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 libseal (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-18132","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":"libseal","purl":"pkg:pypi/libseal","source":"MAL-2026-18132"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-10-21","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-2026-18132/"}