Malicious Package Affecting libpeshka package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LIBPESHKA-72535
  • 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. djanga, easyinstall and libpeshka packages injected code into the .bashrc file when installed on a linux system.

On October 13th, 2018 all of these packages have been removed from Pypi.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1