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id: MAL-2026-16219
title: Malicious code in licloud (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in licloud (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: licloud
product: licloud
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - licloud
published: '2026-09-16'
updated: '2026-09-17'
sourceUpdated: '2026-09-17T14:30:05.405699848Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-16219'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/licloud'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/licloud/0.2.8/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/licloud/0.2.7a0/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-09-16T16:19:56.954Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (380753d9b58e068e84b5bd87242ad31e4b833cdcc056021925aa2dcc91633b46)
setup.py unconditionally collects the installer's OS name, username, and hostname and POSTs them to a hardcoded plain-HTTP bare-IP endpoint (http://182.92.143.23/collect.php) before invoking setup(). The beacon fires on `pip install` without user consent and is unrelated to the package's stated purpose (an 'LLM gateway SDK'). The destination is a bare IP over cleartext HTTP, not a documented publisher endpoint, and the payload identifies the installer host (os, user, host) with a package tag for follow-on targeting.

## Source: kam193 (5e2bddcfca980297be9856fbbc3eeab78253c51efe034bd92b9e8b52ed9aacc6)
Installing the package or importing the module exfiltrates basic information about the host, and the package has no other purpose.


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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: GENERIC-standard-pypi-install-pentest


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


## Affected packages

- `licloud`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.