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id: MAL-2026-6752
title: Malicious code in confighub (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in confighub (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: confighub
product: confighub
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - confighub
published: '2026-07-03'
updated: '2026-07-04'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6752'
references:
  - url: >-
      https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file-analysis/ZDI5YWM0ZjAzY2VjMjYzYWRiNTA4NDE5ZmQxOWM1OTU6MTc4MzEyMDU0OA==
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/confighub'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-07-08T18:25:54.808Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: kam193 (7c0b6d6eae8eecdf0317e7d4c624ff2a1eee1ca58c92c6b4fac34dd2567f4556)
This package depends on malicious 'procwire', which starts malicious actions during installation.


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


Campaign: 2026-07-procwire


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


 - Downloads and executes a remote executable.


 - obfuscation


 - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package


 - malware


 - steganography


## Affected packages

- `confighub`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.