Malicious code in waymo-waymax (PyPI)

Overview

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Source: kam193 (1ae76b937a20a588a9b5514b837bb86bd087aceb428216f0abbe8ff16e9da426)

Package claims to perform dependency confusion PoC and exfiltrates multiple data, including full sensitive environment variables

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

Campaign: GENERIC-questionable-pentest

Reasons (based on the campaign):

• exfiltration-env-variables

• exfiltration-generic

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

• typosquatting

Affected packages

• waymo-waymax

Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.