{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including robase-quick-install.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-2821 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-2026-2821 is a malicious package in robase-quick-install, published on 16 Apr 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-2821 is a malicious package: robase-quick-install (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-2026-2821/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-2821/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-2821","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-2821/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-2821","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"During installation package downloads and runs a malicious executable. Likely continuation of 2026-03-rowrap.\n\nThe campaign is built over a malicious Roblox API wrapper. The roboat[.]pro (later robase[.]app) domain advertises a wrapper that is either directly malicious (as roboat collected in the campaign 2026-03-rowrap) or uses a malicious dependencies (like roboat-utils). New versions are published simultaneously with malicious dependencies and quickly removed. Another advertisement channel is https://github.com/Addi9000/roboat referencing two active contributors: https://github.com/Addi9000 and https://github.com/RoCruise\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-03-roboat-addition\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n\n - malware\n\n - clones-real-package","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 robase-quick-install (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-2821","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":"robase-quick-install","purl":"pkg:pypi/robase-quick-install","source":"MAL-2026-2821"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-04-16","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-2026-2821/"}