GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-4g82-3jcr-q52w Malware in ctx
CRITICAL
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- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- ctx
- Severity
- Critical
- Weaknesses
- CWE-912
- Reviewed
- 2022-05-25
Affected packages
• PyPI ctx: <= 0.1.4 (no fix yet)
Description
The `ctx` hosted project on PyPI was taken over via user account compromise and replaced with a malicious project which contained runtime code that collected the content of `os.environ.items()` when instantiating `Ctx` objects. The captured environment variables were sent as a base64 encoded query parameter to a heroku application running at `https://anti-theft-web.herokuapp.com`.
If you installed the package between May 14, 2022 and May 24, 2022, and your environment variables contain sensitive data like passwords and API keys (like `AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID` and `AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY`), we advise you to rotate your passwords and keys, then perform an audit to determine if they were exploited.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-912 Hidden Functionality weakness
References
- https://github.com/figlief/ctx package
- https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/ctx+Python+Library+Updated+with+Extra+Features/28678 web
- https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/malicious-python-library-ctx-removed-from-pypi-repo web
- https://python-security.readthedocs.io/pypi-vuln/index-2022-05-24-ctx-domain-takeover.html web