---
id: MAL-2026-10690
title: Malicious code in qwen-asr-pvt (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in qwen-asr-pvt (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: qwen-asr-pvt
product: qwen-asr-pvt
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - qwen-asr-pvt
published: '2026-07-15'
updated: '2026-07-15'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-10690'
references:
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/qwen-asr-pvt/0.0.6/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-07-16T18:59:41.903Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (68e8b2f6db0443a648cdf03348c8dd9351568469f84b8d61022f1ed1da2a330e)
The package's pyproject.toml declares an unpinned runtime dependency on `transformers4576`, a lookalike of the widely used HuggingFace `transformers` library. Every internal import that would normally reference `transformers` has been rewritten to `transformers4576` (e.g., `from transformers4576 import AutoConfig, AutoModel, AutoProcessor` reachable from __init__.py), so `pip install qwen-asr-pvt` forces pip to resolve and install the attacker-controlled `transformers4576` from PyPI. Whatever code is published under that name executes at install/import time on the installer's machine. The lure is reinforced by publisher impersonation: the package name `qwen-asr-pvt` (a `-pvt` suffix on the real `qwen-asr`), the `Alibaba Qwen Team` author metadata, and the homepage pointing at `https://github.com/Qwen/Qwen3-ASR` mimic the official Qwen3-ASR project, while the shipped source is copied from that upstream with import statements rewritten to the typosquat name. Together these signals form a dependency-confusion dropper: the flagged package is the lure, and the harm arrives through the attacker-controlled transitive.


## Affected packages

- `qwen-asr-pvt`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.