OSV ID
MAL-2024-12269
Ecosystem
pypi
Summary
When using this library to do any request, a "validate_origin" function is called (L1320 in _client.py). This method, located in _utils.py, collects all request data, tries also read /etc/shadow using Docker container, and sends them to an endpoint controlled by the package author. The package seems to be a clone of httpx and also informs in the README that it's a malicious library, as so, it seems to be a malicious research attempts. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2024-09-old-faest Reasons (based on the campaign): - exfiltration-generic - action-hidden-in-lib-usage - clones-real-package
Source: kam193 (f66b290465d72fc55bce4fef4200ebea68c430be84cdcbbabec5263958041781)
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