Malicious Package Affecting esqcpupipkill 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-ESQCPUPIPKILL-5292097
  • published29 Mar 2023
  • disclosed29 Mar 2023
  • creditFortiGuard Labs team

Introduced: 29 Mar 2023

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the esqcpupipkill package.

Overview

esqcpupipkill is a malicious package. This package contains a malicious code in its setup.py file which tries to run a PowerShell command that attempts to download a malicious executable and execute it.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1