Malicious Package Affecting pypiele 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-PYPIELE-6069639
  • published17 Nov 2023
  • disclosed17 Nov 2023
  • creditYehuda Gelb

Introduced: 17 Nov 2023

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the pypiele package.

Overview

pypiele is a malicious package. The attack chain is triggered by package installation via malicious code embedded within the setup.py file. The scripts then deploy VBScript and batch files within the System64 directory that download and execute a file named Runtime.exe. This file is a Python program that is designed to steal extensive sensitive information from the compromised system, various browsers, and applications.

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CVSS Scores

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