Malicious Package Affecting easyinstall package, versions [0,]


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-EASYINSTALL-72534
  • published 28 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 13 Oct 2018
  • credit Bertus

Introduced: 13 Oct 2018

Malicious CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-506 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Avoid usage of this package altogether.

Overview

12 Python libraries were identified as malicious packages. djanga, easyinstall and libpeshka packages injected code into the .bashrc file when installed on a linux system.

On October 13th, 2018 all of these packages have been removed from Pypi.

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