{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00008354","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in zencleaner (PyPI)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-4493-p4qp-qw6p"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for zencleaner, zencleaner, zencleaner. Published version ranges and source prerequisites are shown below; this is not an inspection of a visitor’s application.","review_status":"source_listed","control_topics":[],"public_actions":[{"summary":"Identify the exact component and deployed version, examine the linked publisher’s conditions, and retain evidence of any mitigation.","source_ids":["sr-06a02a2b0bfa13d3fba8077999827782"],"action_type":"investigate","limitations":"Confirm current vendor support, compatibility and deployment evidence. This report has not tested a fix in your system.","current_supported_target":null}],"schema_version":"1.1.0","source_metrics":[],"why_it_matters":"Published affected context helps an owner decide what evidence to gather. This report has not examined your application.","related_sources":[{"id":"sr-06a02a2b0bfa13d3fba8077999827782","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-4493-p4qp-qw6p","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-4493-p4qp-qw6p","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:56:27.401Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-06a02a2b0bfa13d3fba8077999827782"],"technology":"zencleaner","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"When a license key is activated or deactivated in the local UI, zencleaner/webhook_logger.py posts the key, the PC name, the Windows user name and the client IP to a hardcoded Discord webhook, although the README says nothing is sent to the internet. 1.0.3 and 1.0.3.1 also look up the public IP through ipify.org and ifconfig.me. Separately, cleaner_system.py clears the Windows event logs, Security included, with wevtutil; a comment in that function reads \"so forensic scanners report 0 entries\". Nothing runs at install time. I read all three versions and did not run them.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.0.0"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-06a02a2b0bfa13d3fba8077999827782"],"technology":"zencleaner","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"When a license key is activated or deactivated in the local UI, zencleaner/webhook_logger.py posts the key, the PC name, the Windows user name and the client IP to a hardcoded Discord webhook, although the README says nothing is sent to the internet. 1.0.3 and 1.0.3.1 also look up the public IP through ipify.org and ifconfig.me. Separately, cleaner_system.py clears the Windows event logs, Security included, with wevtutil; a comment in that function reads \"so forensic scanners report 0 entries\". Nothing runs at install time. I read all three versions and did not run them.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.0.3"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-06a02a2b0bfa13d3fba8077999827782"],"technology":"zencleaner","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"When a license key is activated or deactivated in the local UI, zencleaner/webhook_logger.py posts the key, the PC name, the Windows user name and the client IP to a hardcoded Discord webhook, although the README says nothing is sent to the internet. 1.0.3 and 1.0.3.1 also look up the public IP through ipify.org and ifconfig.me. Separately, cleaner_system.py clears the Windows event logs, Security included, with wevtutil; a comment in that function reads \"so forensic scanners report 0 entries\". Nothing runs at install time. I read all three versions and did not run them.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.0.3.1"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-10-31T22:13:22.841Z","source_updated_at":"2026-10-29T15:31:38.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-10-06T00:33:04.000Z","is_synthetic_fixture":false,"null_last_reviewed_at":null,"public_change_summary":"First indexed by Null; source disclosure date is shown separately.","null_first_observed_at":"2026-10-31T21:56:27.401Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}