Malicious Package Affecting pptest 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-PPTEST-1924467
  • published21 Nov 2021
  • disclosed19 Nov 2021
  • creditJFrog

Introduced: 19 Nov 2021

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the pptest package.

Overview

pptest is a malicious package. It is using DNS tunneling as a data exfiltration method by relying on DNS requests as a channel for communication between the victim machine and the remote server.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1