Malicious Package Affecting pkgutil package, versions [0,]
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-PKGUTIL-72527
- published 28 Oct 2018
- disclosed 13 Oct 2018
- credit Bertus
How to fix?
Avoid usage of this package altogether.
Overview
12 Python libraries were identified as malicious packages.
smplejson
, pkgutil
, timeit
, diango
, djago
, dajngo
and mybiubiubiu
packages were vulnerable to typo-squatting attacks. These packages performed a ping back to a server indicating the package were installed.
On October 13th, 2018 all of these packages have been removed from Pypi.