{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including swampo.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-3031 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-2026-3031 is a malicious package in swampo, published on 24 Apr 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-3031 is a malicious package: swampo (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-2026-3031/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-3031/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-3031","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-3031/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-3031","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"Multi-stage dropper. The \"analytics\" functionality fetches fake updates information that should contain the next URL. From it, a yet another URL is downloaded, and then used to perform TXT DNS queries holding the encoded next URL. From this URL, a remote script is fetched and executed. During analysis, retrieving the final payload was not successful.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: 2026-04-swampo\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.\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 swampo (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-3031","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":"swampo","purl":"pkg:pypi/swampo","source":"MAL-2026-3031"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-04-24","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-2026-3031/"}