Vulnerability MAL-2026-18706
Summary
Malicious code in mcp-teamviewer (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 (a5d59e94208df065ea45c96e99b262462ea08b134b85f9d1f707f4350623d7ff)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'mcp-teamviewer' @ 0.0.1 (pypi) as malicious.
It is considered malicious because:
- The package communicates with a domain associated with malicious activity.