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Malicious MAL-2025-48895

netkit-lite

PyPI package · versions 1.2.3, 1.3.2, 1.3.1, 1.3.0, 1.2.9, 1.2.8, 1.2.7, 1.2.6, 1.2.5, 1.2.4

Reported Sep 26, 2025 · 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 (b4f77a4b324adb21fdeb5020c213d4ad7d72eefe9f26ee0c134a1cc8544255e9)
Project is intended only for presenting dependency confusion and exfiltrates basic data

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Category: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research & co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.

Campaign: 2025-09-netkit-lite

Reasons (based on the campaign):

- The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.

- dependency-confusion