mal-2025-41755
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2024-07-26 16:53
Modified
2025-12-11 09:27
Summary
Malicious code in rtxt-dep3 (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (c9452c218f473489657ae73882d2b63b23ea6349c2d4da8bf5fe393f9ef69bbf)

Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.


Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

  • The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "rtxt-dep3",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/rtxt-dep3"
      },
      "versions": [
        "3.3.7"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
      "type": "ANALYST"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://www.reversinglabs.com"
      ],
      "name": "ReversingLabs",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-04250",
        "import_time": "2025-08-29T06:41:52.970376144Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-08-28T07:11:50Z",
        "sha256": "6bb8cf9565491216972397193b19116a7d443f32ae4680722f8c259abd60611c",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "3.3.7"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep3",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.381086393Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "72cd069f18d09ad432d06e3ef414186794031c4d5856346d49b480ad4adb5302",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep3",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.568448854Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "c9452c218f473489657ae73882d2b63b23ea6349c2d4da8bf5fe393f9ef69bbf",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest/rtxt-dep3",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:58.671626593Z",
        "modified_time": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
        "sha256": "d8dd6cf72aea24d8c771e739fcef15a3f1738ffdfefcd04a7cc0a4c45e049717",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "3.3.7"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (c9452c218f473489657ae73882d2b63b23ea6349c2d4da8bf5fe393f9ef69bbf)\nInstalling the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research \u0026 co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.\n\n\nCampaign: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-41755",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T09:27:53Z",
  "published": "2024-07-26T16:53:30Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/rtxt-dep3"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in rtxt-dep3 (PyPI)"
}


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