MAL-2026-16274Critical▾ Abyssal⚠ Exploited in the wildMalicious code in requests-auroras (PyPI)
▾ Abyssal zone — Critical with a public exploit or in-the-wild use
impact 52.3 · likelihood 0 · exploitation 18
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Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
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During installation, package starts a reverse shell.
Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.
Campaign: 2026-09-requests-triwes
Reasons (based on the campaign):
The package contains code to create a reverse shell, allowing an attacker to execute any commands on the victim's machine.
The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.
requests-aurorasRefer to the advisory for the patched release.