mal-2025-48895
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-09-26 15:42
Modified
2025-12-31 02:45
Summary
Malicious code in netkit-lite (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (b4f77a4b324adb21fdeb5020c213d4ad7d72eefe9f26ee0c134a1cc8544255e9)

Project is intended only for presenting dependency confusion and exfiltrates basic data


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


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "netkit-lite",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/netkit-lite"
      },
      "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"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
      "type": "ANALYST"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://www.reversinglabs.com"
      ],
      "name": "ReversingLabs",
      "type": "FINDER"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
      {
        "id": "RLMA-2025-05214",
        "import_time": "2025-10-27T18:08:49.947347142Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-10-23T19:16:47Z",
        "sha256": "feb61821989927e7156257d8b89badf1f03c6c4f24a236aeb2aa9ab45844e882",
        "source": "reversing-labs",
        "versions": [
          "1.2.3"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-09-netkit-lite/netkit-lite",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:56.234765187Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-09-26T15:42:58.892909Z",
        "sha256": "324bb467c36fadba778ec46019bdeaf8b0aa0795b3afb476c9432173715ca36a",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "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",
          "1.2.3"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-09-netkit-lite/netkit-lite",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:19.421912637Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-09-26T15:42:58.892909Z",
        "sha256": "b4f77a4b324adb21fdeb5020c213d4ad7d72eefe9f26ee0c134a1cc8544255e9",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "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",
          "1.2.3"
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-09-netkit-lite/netkit-lite",
        "import_time": "2025-12-30T22:39:04.318341995Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-09-26T15:42:58.892909Z",
        "sha256": "7aefe226e47fa8aca7fdd054dc15258e068977243a36c39ed74168c2e42955e0",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "1.2.3",
          "1.2.4",
          "1.2.5",
          "1.2.6",
          "1.2.7",
          "1.2.8",
          "1.2.9",
          "1.3.0",
          "1.3.1",
          "1.3.2"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (b4f77a4b324adb21fdeb5020c213d4ad7d72eefe9f26ee0c134a1cc8544255e9)\nProject is intended only for presenting dependency confusion and exfiltrates basic data\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: PROBABLY_PENTEST - Packages looking like typical pentest packages, but also anything that looks like testing, exploring pre-prepared kits, research \u0026 co, with clearly low-harm possibilities.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-09-netkit-lite\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package contains code to exfiltrate basic data from the system, like IP or username. It has a limited risk.\n\n\n - dependency-confusion\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-48895",
  "modified": "2025-12-31T02:45:15Z",
  "published": "2025-09-26T15:42:58Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/netkit-lite"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in netkit-lite (PyPI)"
}


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