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id: MAL-2026-18045
title: Malicious code in asurion (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in asurion (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: asurion
product: asurion
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - asurion
published: '2026-10-19'
updated: '2026-10-20'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-20T18:30:11.145410844Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18045'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/asurion'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/asurion/99.0.0/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-21T11:54:42.738Z'
---

## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (393ccbeed4c71a6a21a3a697f0809845dddec09ddc8884662f40e2b2257a28a9)
setup.py executes at `pip install` time and POSTs a JSON payload containing the full `os.environ` dictionary along with hostname, username, current working directory, and platform details to the hardcoded endpoint https://webhook.site/b2967b0a-1b24-4670-8ae1-e09e3cf272c4 via urllib.request. Environment variables on developer and CI hosts routinely contain credential-grade secrets (AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, GITHUB_TOKEN, NPM_TOKEN, database passwords, cloud session tokens), so this install-time beacon is a bulk credential-sweep. The package name, implausibly high version number, and single webhook.site exfil destination are consistent with a dependency-confusion canary/exfil payload targeting an internal `asurion` namespace.

## Source: kam193 (05820dd77e1f73d1a01797af6f10c6fa4ae22038be3fcd6a8cbd8c117cf6436c)
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

- `asurion`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.