{"items":[{"id":"NVI-00012315","kind":"supply_chain_event","title":"Malicious code in caracas4check (PyPI)","revision":1,"unknowns":["Customer inventory, deployment, reachability and exploitation have not been inspected."],"lifecycle":"active","identifiers":["GHSA-8p46-j5h8-w78j"],"plain_summary":"GitHub lists this malware advisory for caracas4check, caracas4check. 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-1ef4228cb6787cde8423fe11e71c90cd"],"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-1ef4228cb6787cde8423fe11e71c90cd","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8p46-j5h8-w78j","basis":"vendor_advisory","notes":"GitHub Advisory Database; CC-BY-4.0. Each advisory links its original attribution. Null normalizes fields.","title":"GHSA-8p46-j5h8-w78j","publisher":"GitHub Advisory Database","observed_at":"2026-11-01T00:58:30.605Z"}],"affected_context":[{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-1ef4228cb6787cde8423fe11e71c90cd"],"technology":"caracas4check","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: kam193 (fe298eb267ef99191242315438fe8b7a619bece89e39d3e607cc34af455c647a)\nDuring installation, the code downloads a malicious executable from a remote location. The malicious action is triggered only on specific hosts.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-09-caracas4check\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - obfuscation\n\n\n - targetted-attack\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.1.1"]},{"certainty":"source_listed","source_ids":["sr-1ef4228cb6787cde8423fe11e71c90cd"],"technology":"caracas4check","known_exclusions":[],"conditions_summary":"## Source: kam193 (fe298eb267ef99191242315438fe8b7a619bece89e39d3e607cc34af455c647a)\nDuring installation, the code downloads a malicious executable from a remote location. The malicious action is triggered only on specific hosts.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-09-caracas4check\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - obfuscation\n\n\n - targetted-attack\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote executable.\n\n\n - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.\n\n---\n\nCredit: OpenSSF (source)","public_affected_ranges":["= 1.1.2"]}],"null_published_at":"2026-11-01T01:45:40.755Z","source_updated_at":"2026-09-27T15:32:19.000Z","source_disclosed_at":"2026-09-27T12:30:23.000Z","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":"2026-11-01T00:58:30.605Z"}],"next_cursor":null,"snapshot_revision":"42594"}