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id: MAL-2026-17863
title: Malicious code in crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d
product: crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d
published: '2026-10-13'
updated: '2026-10-13'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-13T23:45:04.848544232Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17863'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-15T11:47:08.220Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: kam193 (0ca34d571eaf519847a961f7da1f203d35f7a3c011f5fd4df3744f50a0615d2e)
Package attempts to collect environment variables from a specific environment, self-identified as BigQuery user-defined functions research. The final exfiltration of collected data seems to require the control of the execution environment, supporting the research/pentest claims.


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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: 2026-10-crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - abuses-pth


 - exfiltration-env-variables


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


## Affected packages

- `crelic-bqwheel-52f66a3f1d`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.