{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including orchestril.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-18142 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-2026-18142 is a malicious package in orchestril, published on 21 Oct 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-18142 is a malicious package: orchestril (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-2026-18142/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-18142/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-18142","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-18142/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-18142","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 orchestril 0.1.0 was examined and no indicators of installer-side harm were observed. There is no evidence of install-time or import-time network activity, no fetch-and-execute of remote content, no reads of installer credential paths (such as ~/.aws, ~/.ssh, ~/.npmrc, browser profiles, or wallet stores), no environment-variable scraping, no silent-relay of caller-supplied data to a hardcoded destination, no backdoor or persistent listener, and no self-propagation or publish-token harvesting. No lifecycle build hooks performing shell or network operations were observed.\n\nThis campaign consists of similar loader packages, which provide executing code from a given URL. While they do not contain the malicious payload and the usage remains unknown, they are clearly a coordinated campaign to place multiple deceptive ways to load malicious code.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-10-voice-synthesis-profiles\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.\n\n - other","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 orchestril (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-18142","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":"orchestril","purl":"pkg:pypi/orchestril","source":"MAL-2026-18142"}],"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-2026-18142/"}