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Malicious MAL-2025-46942 GHSA-97w5-qfpm-q3xg

secret-scanning-proto

RubyGems package · versions 99.99.99

Reported Sep 1, 2025 · Updated Jul 23, 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: ossf-package-analysis (1465959a0117b88d5bd9a996a386b97399277821a3199d62026605750c8194b7)
The OpenSSF Package Analysis project identified 'secret-scanning-proto' @ 99.99.99 (rubygems) as malicious.

It is considered malicious because:

- The package executes one or more commands associated with malicious behavior.