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id: MAL-2026-18103
title: Malicious code in semverr (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in semverr (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: semverr
product: semverr
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - semverr
published: '2026-10-20'
updated: '2026-10-20'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-20T19:30:08.094057253Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18103'
references:
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/semverr/1.0.0/'
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/e6d96b5500b232bea67f6f9046cfbc22d29a515c42d2af9523a15ebe8a7c4ab7/
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/semverr'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-21T11:54:42.742Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (110e0a64dd80654ca98caa5e291499d158a39eb66c1d35efe896a42095c85118)
semverr is a near-empty package (a one-line __version__) whose name resembles the popular semver library. Its setup.py runs at install time (invoked by pip during `pip install`) and calls urllib.request.urlretrieve to fetch an opaque binary from https://c2-worker.crawlnet-claim.workers.dev/dl/pyupd, writes it to a PID-suffixed path in the system temp directory, and launches it via subprocess.Popen with start_new_session=True and stdout/stderr redirected to DEVNULL so the detached child survives the install and runs silently. The fetch is unpinned, unverified (no hash or signature check), and directed at an anonymous Cloudflare Workers host unrelated to any declared publisher. Exceptions in the fetch/exec path are swallowed so install still appears to succeed. The package has no other functionality.

## Source: kam193 (0f1ce7737886cf79e2762db6431449cafab516651f2163e202faaf449a139ecb)
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

- `semverr`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.