Malicious Package Affecting googleads.api package, versions [2.45.9][2.45.8][2.45.7][0.0.40][0.0.39][0.0.38][0.0.37][0.0.36][0.0.35][0.0.34][0.0.33][0.0.32][0.0.31][0.0.30][0.0.29][0.0.28][0.0.27][0.0.26][0.0.25][0.0.24][0.0.23][0.0.22][0.0.21][0.0.20][0.0.19][0.0.18][0.0.17][0.0.16][0.0.15][0.0.14][0.0.13][0.0.12][0.0.11][0.0.10][0.0.9][0.0.8][0.0.7][0.0.6][0.0.5][0.0.4][0.0.3][0.0.2][0.0.1]
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
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- published22 Jul 2026
- disclosed20 Jul 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 20 Jul 2026
New Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 (opens in a new tab)Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Avoid using all malicious instances of the googleads.api package.
Overview
googleads.api is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code, and its content was removed from the official package manager. While this package might be attempting to impersonate a valid organization, there is no connection between that organization and this package authorship.