Malicious Package Affecting virtualload 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-VIRTUALLOAD-3332633
  • published26 Feb 2023
  • disclosed26 Feb 2022
  • creditPhylum Research Team

Introduced: 26 Feb 2022

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

How to fix?

Avoid using all malicious instances of the virtualload package.

Overview

virtualload is a malicious package. This package contains malicious code in its 'setup.py' that downloads and executes a malicious Rust file called 'Esquele.exe', which installs several malware modules.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1