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env-validator-tool@1.0.2

Vulnerability report · Last retrieved from osv.dev September 6, 2026 at 5:01 AM UTC

Malicious

OSV ID

MAL-2026-15828

Ecosystem

pypi

Summary

The package ships no source module (only egg-info metadata) despite declaring a console_script entrypoint 'env-validator=env_validator.cli:main' that references a non-existent env_validator/ directory. Its setup.py install_requires declares 'telemetry-helper' — an unpinned, generically-named PyPI dependency — with an inline author comment reading 'Legitimate dependency with payload'. Because the package itself contains no code, the sole effect of pip install env-validator-tool is resolving and installing whatever code is published under the 'telemetry-helper' name, which then executes on the installer's machine during install. The self-labeled 'payload' comment combined with the missing implementation, unpinned generic dependency name, and stub entrypoint indicates the package is a lure whose only purpose is to pull in the sibling drop package.

Source: amazon-inspector (dd6cff735ec80019a9009add49ea47ae4b34ec0c29c1e287511d765c24300964)

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