{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including pydantics.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of MAL-2026-868 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-2026-868 is a malicious package in pydantics, published on 12 Feb 2026."},"fix_prompt":"MAL-2026-868 is a malicious package: pydantics (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-2026-868/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-868/index.md)","id":"MAL-2026-868","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/MAL-2026-868/index.md","name":"MAL-2026-868","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 is a typosquatting or dependency confusion attempt with a low-harm local-only action, like leaving a flag file.\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-local-typosquatting\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n - dependency-confusion\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n - typosquatting\n\nThe OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'pydantics' @ 1.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.\n\nIt is considered malicious because:\n\n- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.","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 pydantics (PyPI)","id":"MAL-2026-868","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":"pydantics","purl":"pkg:pypi/pydantics","source":"MAL-2026-868"}],"products":null,"published":"2026-02-12","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-2026-868/"}