Malicious Package Affecting kears 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-KEARS-2980329
  • published14 Aug 2022
  • disclosed14 Aug 2022
  • creditCheckmarx SCS

Introduced: 14 Aug 2022

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the Kears package.

Overview

Kears is a malicious package. This package uses "typosquatting" to bait unaware users to install it. It contains code executed upon installation which downloads and executes a windows executable that allows sending data, installing certificates, and executing and downloading files.

Note: The package runs the malicious script only if the victim’s operating system is Windows

CVSS Scores

version 3.1