{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00012296","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in py-venv-doctor (PyPI)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-94w6-hr49-qjm7"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for py-venv-doctor, py-venv-doctor. 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-1bf9ee1a1cbc6cc84e31b08bf62aefbe"],"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-1bf9ee1a1cbc6cc84e31b08bf62aefbe","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-94w6-hr49-qjm7","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-94w6-hr49-qjm7","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-01T00:59:31.866Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-1bf9ee1a1cbc6cc84e31b08bf62aefbe"],"technology":"py-venv-doctor","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: kam193 (f98f9dd8cd5b70474786eb054bccf9de05d98face434e0a814123e51c090f364)\nDuring installation and after generating a healthcheck report, package sends opt-out telemetry. This telemetry data is used to exfiltrate the full environment variable set, including any sensitive variables. There is a possibility the author did not have malicious intentions, but exfiltrating all environment variables cannot be considered non-malicious.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-09-py-venv-doctor\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 0.1.0"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-1bf9ee1a1cbc6cc84e31b08bf62aefbe"],"technology":"py-venv-doctor","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: kam193 (f98f9dd8cd5b70474786eb054bccf9de05d98face434e0a814123e51c090f364)\nDuring installation and after generating a healthcheck report, package sends opt-out telemetry. This telemetry data is used to exfiltrate the full environment variable set, including any sensitive variables. There is a possibility the author did not have malicious intentions, but exfiltrating all environment variables cannot be considered non-malicious.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-09-py-venv-doctor\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n\n - exfiltration-env-variables\n\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 0.1.1"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-01T01:45:40.754Z","source_updated_at":"2026-09-21T06:31:43.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-09-19T00:32:46.000Z","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":"2026-11-01T00:59:31.866Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}