Malicious Package Affecting libpostint 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-LIBPOSTINT-3352337
  • published7 Mar 2023
  • disclosed6 Mar 2023
  • creditYehuda Gelb - Checkmarx Research Team

Introduced: 6 Mar 2023

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the libpostint package.

Overview

libpostint is a malicious package. This package includes in its setup.py a malicious code, which is executed once downloading the package and exposes the victim to spyware and information-stealing malware.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1