Vulnerability MAL-2026-17943
Summary
Malicious code in vinted-mocked-apis (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):
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The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.
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The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
Source: ossf-package-analysis (55332d91b2afbf62923f1d853c6df3a5c8f768797a3176effdecba07b91d4fbf)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'vinted-mocked-apis' @ 99.0.0 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.