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id: MAL-2026-12502
title: Malicious code in gcli-control (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in gcli-control (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: gcli-control
product: gcli-control
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - gcli-control
published: '2026-08-05'
updated: '2026-08-05'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-12502'
references:
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/gcli-control/0.12.2/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/gcli-control/0.5.0/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/gcli-control/0.12.4/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/gcli-control/0.11.1/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-08-05T19:12:55.311Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (b8bd4de0b73d7df676127ce8c632117fc7ea8d008bf941fb7d385f67a84f8d67)
The package installs and runs a host daemon (`python -m gcli host`) that polls a shared JSON document at api.npoint.io for commands, decrypts them, executes them on the installer's machine, and posts encrypted results back. Any party who writes to that shared document controls full-host code execution on every daemon polling it. host.py hardcodes a default rendezvous bin ID `599ac3c39189fcc26e5a` shared across all installers who do not override it, and crypto.py implements a `__BYPASS__` password sentinel with a `BY:` base64-only path that disables AES-GCM entirely, allowing anonymous unauthenticated command injection against every daemon on the default bin. The command dispatcher exposes 200+ operations invokable through this channel, including browser_passwords, browser_cookies, keylog_start/read/save, webcam_capture, shell_history, wifi_password, screenshot, and users add/change_password (credential and secret harvesting); and install_startup/install_scheduled/install_watchdog writing Windows Run keys, systemd user services, cron entries, and startup-folder launchers that relaunch `python -m gcli host` on boot, plus an elevator module offering elevate_uac / elevate_sudo / persist_admin for privilege escalation. The combination is a full remote-access trojan: remote command execution, credential/browser-secret exfiltration, keylogging and webcam capture, boot persistence, and privilege elevation, all reachable by any party who knows the default rendezvous bin.


## Affected packages

- `gcli-control`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.