GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-2r6g-7r83-jg72 `spam` project on PyPI compromised, malicious releases made
HIGH
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- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- spam
- Severity
- High
- Reviewed
- 2024-08-30
Affected packages
• PyPI spam: 2.0.2 (no fix yet)
• PyPI spam: 4.0.2 (no fix yet)
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