Malicious Package Affecting ascii2text package, versions [0,]


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Scope Changed
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ASCII2TEXT-2977568
  • published 10 Aug 2022
  • disclosed 10 Aug 2022
  • credit Unknown

Introduced: 10 Aug 2022

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the ascii2text package.

Overview

ascii2text is a malicious package. This package is mimicking "art" library by using the same description minus the release details. The package contains a malicious code in its __init__.py file imported by the setup.py installation script. The code installs a malicious script that searches for local passwords and uploads them using a discord webhook.