Malicious Package Affecting pyquest 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-PYQUEST-2980312
  • published14 Aug 2022
  • disclosed11 Aug 2022
  • creditLeonid Bezvershenko (Kaspersky)

Introduced: 11 Aug 2022

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the pyquest package.

Overview

pyquest is a malicious package. This package attempts to mask itself as a legitimate HTTP library (like requests), but contains malicious code that downloads obfuscated malicious scripts that steal secret credentials and sensitive information.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1