{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including researchpoc.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-504 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-2026-504 is a malicious package in researchpoc, published on 25 Jan 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-504 is a malicious package: researchpoc (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-2026-504/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-504/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-504","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-504/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-504","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 mentions being a research PoC, probably for dependency confusion, but the code is obfuscated making verification of the claim impossible.\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n - exfiltration-generic\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n - typosquatting","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 researchpoc (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-504","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":"researchpoc","purl":"pkg:pypi/researchpoc","source":"MAL-2026-504"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-01-25","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-2026-504/"}