MAL-2026-3686 Malicious code in amino-fix (PyPI)
Malicious package
Published
MAL-2026-3686 is a malicious package: amino-fix (PyPI). Every version was published to cause harm.
Task:
1. Search this repository's dependency manifests and lockfiles for the package, including transitive dependencies.
2. If it is present, remove it, regenerate the lockfile with the project's package manager, and replace whatever it was used for.
3. List any CI runners, developer machines or containers that installed it, so their secrets can be rotated.
4. If the package is not used anywhere, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-3686/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-3686/index.md)
- Package
- amino-fix
- Registry
- PyPI
What is MAL-2026-3686?
MAL-2026-3686 is a malicious package in amino-fix, published on 13 May 2026.
Official description
The asyncfix subpackage's
signature() helper in aminofix/asyncfix/lib/util/helpers.py (lines 22-25) does not compute the NDC-MSG-SIG locally. Instead, every JSON request body is sent as a query string to http://aminoed.uk.to/api/generator/ndc-msg-sig?data={data} over unencrypted HTTP. This helper is invoked by every authenticated endpoint of the library, including client.login(email, password) — the advertised primary function. As a result, any caller using the async API silently transmits the end-user's plaintext email and password (and all other request bodies) as URL query parameters to aminoed.uk.to, a free .uk.to subdomain unrelated to the real Amino service (service.narvii.com). This is a textbook silent-relay: a hardcoded third-party destination embedded in public API code that exfiltrates caller-supplied credentials without disclosure, over plaintext HTTP with no TLS. A secondary import-time version-check against pypi.org is benign (data-only, printed to stdout) and not a dropper, but is noted as an unrelated quality issue.What should I do about MAL-2026-3686?
Remove the package from your dependencies and lockfiles, then rotate any secrets on machines where it was installed.