Malicious Package Affecting colourama package, versions [0,]
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-COLOURAMA-72537
- published 28 Oct 2018
- disclosed 13 Oct 2018
- credit Bertus
How to fix?
Avoid usage of this package altogether.
Overview
12 Python libraries were identified as malicious packages.
colourama
was financially-motivated and hijacked an infected users' operating system clipboard, where it would scan every 500ms for a Bitcoin address-like string, which it would replace with the attacker's own Bitcoin address in an attempt to hijack Bitcoin payments/transfers made by an infected user.
On October 13th, 2018 all of these packages have been removed from Pypi.