Malicious code in cubesat-upstream-driver (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: kam193 (d669fdf7584f17d952cec3ed432bdb8f07672b43c3bc42ae68aa2d042d51481b)

Package appears to abuse PyPI for a CTF-like exercise. It can collect up to all environment variables. The package does not exfiltrate them on its own, suggesting there is another external trigger for that.

Originally detected by Aikido.

Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2026-08-cubesat-upstream-driver

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• dependency-confusion

• other

Affected packages

• cubesat-upstream-driver

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.