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id: MAL-2026-18102
title: Malicious code in semveer (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in semveer (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: semveer
product: semveer
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - semveer
published: '2026-10-20'
updated: '2026-10-20'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-20T19:30:07.702854832Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18102'
references:
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/semveer/1.0.0/'
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e6d96b5500b232bea67f6f9046cfbc22d29a515c42d2af9523a15ebe8a7c4ab7/
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/semveer'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-21T11:54:42.741Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (d86237b957fd063a0e1fcf250a510b2fb9566ab48652e56fe787d2e1a02e351a)
The sdist for 'semveer' ships an inert module (semveer/__init__.py contains only a __version__ stub) and places all runtime behavior inside setup.py's install hook. On pip install, setup.py calls urllib.request.urlretrieve against https://c2-worker.crawlnet-claim.workers.dev/dl/pyupd, writes the opaque payload to a temporary file, and launches it via subprocess.Popen with start_new_session=True as a detached process. The fetch is wrapped in a bare try/except that suppresses errors, there is no hash or signature verification, the version is not pinned, and the destination host is unrelated to any declared publisher or project homepage. The package name is a one-character edit of the widely used 'semver' name, consistent with a typosquat lure whose only purpose is to trigger the install-time dropper.

## Source: kam193 (857ac41cf6480d83178766eebe04f79d075cc1f35be8b13b612c33b22e7ab434)
During installation, package downloads and executes malware.


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2026-10-semvver


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - malware


 - typosquatting


## Affected packages

- `semveer`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.