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id: MAL-2026-6961
title: Malicious code in waymo-waymax (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in waymo-waymax (PyPI)
severity: none
vendor: waymo-waymax
product: waymo-waymax
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - waymo-waymax
published: '2026-07-08'
updated: '2026-07-08'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-6961'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/waymo-waymax'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
ingestedAt: '2026-07-09T11:56:19.617Z'
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## 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.