mal-2025-4220
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-05-10 17:59
Modified
2025-12-11 09:27
Summary
Malicious code in glean-indexing-api-client (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (c4f72985a496d7f564761c6862c160db30daaa442596d1cb609b0cc750bfad7a)

Packages that seem to be created by a legit bug bounty hunter. Designed to look like created by different organisations, they contain a couple of data exfiltration (including all env variables) and potential remote code execution (though the URL seems not to serve any code).


Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2025-05-sl4x01

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.

  • exfiltration-env-variables

  • impersonation


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "glean-indexing-api-client",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/glean-indexing-api-client"
      },
      "versions": [
        "1.0.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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": "REPORTER"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://www.reversinglabs.com"
      ],
      "name": "ReversingLabs",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "iocs": {
      "domains": [
        "sl4x0.xyz"
      ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-02574",
        "import_time": "2025-05-22T14:06:35.727745274Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-05-22T12:33:34Z",
        "sha256": "9c209056a9889f8383401fc66015ff4d79532283756582e235800905e648ec89",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "1.0.0"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-05-sl4x01/glean-indexing-api-client",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.222824642Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-05-10T17:59:53Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "f24e82fe82edc6857f957ad86f6676f6f5fba7b3a3a14f7c2d7fd1623f53d0a1",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-05-sl4x01/glean-indexing-api-client",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.242956005Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-05-10T17:59:53Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "c4f72985a496d7f564761c6862c160db30daaa442596d1cb609b0cc750bfad7a",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-05-sl4x01/glean-indexing-api-client",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.508592144Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-05-10T17:59:53Z",
        "sha256": "a1eeadd0688f6415d094566e19fbe9e6646ae6faa66dd3b7e9beafbca54d5e29",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "1.0.0"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (c4f72985a496d7f564761c6862c160db30daaa442596d1cb609b0cc750bfad7a)\nPackages that seem to be created by a legit bug bounty hunter. Designed to look like created by different organisations, they contain a couple of data exfiltration (including all env variables) and potential remote code execution (though the URL seems not to serve any code).\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-05-sl4x01\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 - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n\n - impersonation\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-4220",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T09:27:53Z",
  "published": "2025-05-10T17:59:53Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/sl4x0"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/glean-indexing-api-client"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in glean-indexing-api-client (PyPI)"
}


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