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Unscored PYSEC-2022-251

The spam project on PyPI was taken over via user account compromise via a phishing attack and a new malicious release made which contained …

Published Aug 26, 2022 · Assigned by PYSEC

Description

The spam project on PyPI was taken over via user account compromise via a phishing attack and a new malicious release made which contained code which some environment variables and downloaded and ran malware at install time

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI spam >= 2.0.2 — PYSEC-2022-251

References