Malicious Package Affecting pytorch-pygame 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-PYTORCHPYGAME-5591113
  • published21 May 2023
  • disclosed21 May 2023
  • creditTzachi(Zack) Zorn - Checkmarx Security

Introduced: 21 May 2023

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the pytorch-pygame package.

Overview

pytorch-pygame is a malicious package. This package contains encoded code that, upon execution downloads a second piece of malware hosted on a legitimate service (replit.com). The downloaded malware is designed to steal the victims information, including credentials, file names, screenshots etc.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1