Malicious Package Affecting aiohttp-proxies package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-AIOHTTPPROXIES-2441346
  • published6 Apr 2022
  • disclosed6 Apr 2022
  • creditAx Sharma, Ali ElShakankiry

Introduced: 6 Apr 2022

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the aiohttp-proxies package.

Overview

aiohttp-proxies is a malicious package. This package decodes a malicious Windows binary embedded in the setup.py file and executes it upon install. It contains long base64-encoded strings that take up hundreds of line.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1