py-venv-doctor@0.1.1
Vulnerability report · Last retrieved from osv.dev September 19, 2026 at 3:41 AM UTC
OSV ID
MAL-2026-16296
Ecosystem
pypi
Summary
During installation and after generating a healthcheck report, package sends opt-out telemetry. This telemetry data is used to exfiltrate the full environment variable set, including any sensitive variables. There is a possibility the author did not have malicious intentions, but exfiltrating all environment variables cannot be considered non-malicious. --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2026-09-py-venv-doctor Reasons (based on the campaign): - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation. - exfiltration-env-variables - action-hidden-in-lib-usage
Source: kam193 (f98f9dd8cd5b70474786eb054bccf9de05d98face434e0a814123e51c090f364)
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