Malicious code in python-aliyun-sdk-kms (PyPI)

python-aliyun-sdk-kms Updated 02 Oct 2025

Summary

14/08/2023

Disclosed on

CRITICAL

Severity

No i

Fix available

Critical

Severity

Not published

CVSS Score

MAL-2023-8366: Malicious code in python-aliyun-sdk-kms (PyPI). Affected versions are not published. No fix is published. How to fix ↓

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Source: checkmarx (53bdcdc5414f25435cd821a9217982c4b486c91100caa324a9c3613d4ccd8d42)

Malicious Typosquatting packages campaign targeting developers, steals cloud service credentials

Source: google-open-source-security (4b0a37d9408528e981948fc9fa594b68b02980adbd851742fd03422ff814a7d7)

Attack targeted at users of Alibaba, AWS and Telegram via malicious packages published to PyPI.

The malicious code was hidden in strategicly chosen functions and would only trigger when these functions were called. The malicious code does not automatically run on install or import, helping the packages evade detection.

How To Fix

This package is malicious. Remove it and rotate any credentials it could have accessed.

pip uninstall python-aliyun-sdk-kms

If it arrived as a transitive dependency, remove the package that pulled it in, then reinstall.

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How To Fix

This package is malicious. Remove it and rotate any credentials it could have accessed.

pip uninstall python-aliyun-sdk-kms

If it arrived as a transitive dependency, remove the package that pulled it in, then reinstall.

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