{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including icinga.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-5532 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-2026-5532 is a malicious package in icinga, published on 10 Jun 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-5532 is a malicious package: icinga (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-2026-5532/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5532/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-5532","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-5532/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-5532","record":{"aliases":[],"analysis":null,"analysis_generated_by":null,"assigner":null,"cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":null,"severity":null,"source":null,"vector":null,"version":null},"cwes":[],"description":"PyPI package 'icinga' at version 99.1.0 is a dependency-confusion / typosquat lure against the Icinga monitoring project. It ships no real functionality (generic description 'Operational package utility', placeholder author 'Dev') and exists only to run an install-time beacon. setup.py defines a CustomInstall command that, after install.run(self), collects host identifiers (COMPUTERNAME / uname nodename, current working directory, OS info, and the internal IP obtained via a UDP socket trick to 8.8.8.8) and POSTs them as JSON, tagged 'pypi-tg' / 'icinga', to a base64-encoded URL (aHR0cHM6Ly9weXRob24tbG9nLmxhcHhhMzU0LndvcmtlcnMuZGV2Lw== → https://python-log.lapxa354.workers.dev/) decoded at runtime via base64.b64decode and dispatched with urllib.request.urlopen. Exceptions are suppressed to keep the install silent. The implausibly high version number (99.1.0) is a classic dependency-confusion technique to outrank legitimate internal mirrors of an 'icinga' name. Installer impact: any machine running `pip install icinga` (CI runner, developer workstation, internal build host) leaks its hostname, internal IP, working directory, and OS to the attacker — confirming the typosquat lands and seeding follow-up targeted attacks.\n\nInstalling the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.\n\n---\n\nCategory: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research \u0026 co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.","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 icinga (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-5532","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":"icinga","purl":"pkg:pypi/icinga","source":"MAL-2026-5532"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-06-10","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-2026-5532/"}