Malicious Package Affecting requests-darwin-lite package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-REQUESTSDARWINLITE-6836782
  • published 12 May 2024
  • disclosed 11 May 2024
  • credit Phylum Research Team

Introduced: 11 May 2024

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the requests-darwin-lite package.

Overview

requests-darwin-lite is a malicious package. This package contains a malicious code in it's setup.py through the PyInstall function, which contains a malicious Go binary.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High