Malicious Package Affecting pycolouring package, versions [0,]
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Exploit Maturity
Mature
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- published 29 Mar 2023
- disclosed 29 Mar 2023
- credit FortiGuard Labs team
How to fix?
Avoid using all malicious instances of the pycolouring
package.
Overview
pycolouring is a malicious package.
This package contains a malicious code in its setup.py
file which tries to run a PowerShell command that attempts to download a malicious executable and execute it.
References
CVSS Scores
version 3.1