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Malicious MAL-2024-5326 SNYK-PYTHON-LIBSOCKS5-6139260

libsocks5

PyPI package · versions 1.7.4, 1.7.0, 1.1.1, 1.7.3, 1.7.2, 1.7.1

Reported Jun 25, 2024 · Updated Mar 19, 2026

If this package is installed

Remove it, treat the machine (or CI runner) as compromised, and rotate every secret, token and key it could access — from a different, clean machine.

Details

Source: kam193 (f9d745820f944dd4aaf916168db7546fdd4689ac873f85166e92e87329caa3f9)
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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2023-11-update-information-endpoint

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- obfuscation

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

- typosquatting