pysec-2022-250
Vulnerability from pysec
Published
2022-08-26 17:55
Modified
2022-08-26 17:55
Details

The exotel project on PyPI was taken over via user account compromise via a phishing attack and a new malicious release made which contained code which some environment variables and downloaded and ran malware at install time

Impacted products
Name purl
exotel pkg:pypi/exotel


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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "exotel",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/exotel"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0.1.6"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.1.6"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "details": "The exotel project on PyPI was taken over via user account compromise via a phishing attack and a new malicious release made which contained code which some environment variables and downloaded and ran malware at install time",
  "id": "PYSEC-2022-250",
  "modified": "2022-08-26T17:55:00.000000Z",
  "published": "2022-08-26T17:55:00.000000Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ARTICLE",
      "url": "https://twitter.com/pypi/status/1562442207079976966"
    }
  ]
}


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