pypi

chacha-lite-encrypt @4.2.0

Vulnerability report · Last retrieved from osv.dev August 14, 2026 at 8:32 AM UTC

Malicious

OSV ID

MAL-2026-1482

Ecosystem

pypi

Summary

During import, package decrypts and runs a malicious executable. The executable is hidden in an encoded and xored form in the JSON resource file. This is a follow up of the campaign 2026-03-fastapi-middleware-cors --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-03-ariadne-federation Reasons (based on the campaign): - malware - obfuscation - dependency-confusion - typosquatting

Source: kam193 (705b86da323a21b157504bf4833b60c8aa90a57d6db5111716afe31c114b6c1d)

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