{"id":"MAL-2026-18133","title":"Malicious code in journey-test-hellospy (PyPI)","summary":"Malicious code in journey-test-hellospy (PyPI)","severity":"critical","exploited":true,"vendor":"journey-test-hellospy","product":"journey-test-hellospy","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["journey-test-hellospy"],"published":"2026-10-21","updated":"2026-10-21","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-21T23:30:04.083291341Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18133","references":[{"url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/journey-test-hellospy"}],"tags":["osv","pip","malware"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-22T11:56:43.865Z","slug":"MAL-2026-18133","body":"## Overview\n\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (418fea1fe789e9a44c77c08c9135b3da66b773882c9fb2757094c3f55b04321b)\nDuring installation, package exfiltrates potentially sensitive environmental variables\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-10-journey-test-helloshell\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n\n - targetted-attack\n\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `journey-test-hellospy`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the advisory for the patched release.","depth":"abyssal","depthScore":70,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":52.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":18,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}