Vulnerability MAL-2026-17703

Unknown
UNKNOWN RISK
Vulnerabilities without an assigned CVSS score. Severity is not determinable from available data.
2 hours ago
October 08, 2026 at 08:52 PM UTC
Malicious code in kafka-roller (PyPI)
>=99.0.0 <99.0.7
>=99.0.0 <99.0.7

Summary

Malicious code in kafka-roller (PyPI)

Details

Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.

Source: ossf-package-analysis (4b68fa52500e16cab90e8038ae96e2ba1be6c448a8caa40ab3e46dc6d3c26436)

The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'kafka-roller' @ 99.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

  • The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.

Impacted packages

Timeline

Published
2 hours ago
October 08, 2026 at 08:52 PM UTC
Last Modified
41 minutes ago
October 08, 2026 at 10:30 PM UTC