Malicious Package Affecting colourama 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-COLOURAMA-72537
  • published28 Oct 2018
  • disclosed13 Oct 2018
  • creditBertus

Introduced: 13 Oct 2018

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

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.

CVSS Scores

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