MAL-2025-1990

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/reques/MAL-2025-1990.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-1990
Published
2025-01-25T16:53:01Z
Modified
2025-12-12T20:45:58.935434Z
Summary
Malicious code in reques (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (7f1c117835fcc30eb4ff0ff5c9426d10011537b644ddea270fcdaba17ed7050e)

Clone of the requests package that modified the code to send all get and post requests to a hardcoded URL

Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2025-01-rqsts

Reasons (based on the campaign):

  • clones-real-package

  • dependency-confusion

  • action-hidden-in-lib-usage

Database specific 
{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "RLMA-2025-01233",
            "modified_time": "2025-03-03T13:45:14Z",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "sha256": "461c1cabe5473baebc60d01c24a90d36a9cdce34d7bdedbf2c196fe390ad641c",
            "versions": [
                "2.28.1"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-03-03T15:07:16.865246188Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-01-rqsts/reques",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-01-25T16:53:01Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "sha256": "69fc18480a77f17458806ca2789c1dac4bd2a917b35d856946444f9e95485679",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.53412673Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-01-rqsts/reques",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-01-25T16:53:01Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "sha256": "7f1c117835fcc30eb4ff0ff5c9426d10011537b644ddea270fcdaba17ed7050e",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.57228925Z"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-01-rqsts/reques",
            "modified_time": "2025-01-25T16:53:01Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "sha256": "09d3c0352a1fb4c7c4a6b01046a94ed81f170bc45a5a5b1799301e82c1d8d295",
            "versions": [
                "2.28.1"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.780992609Z"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / reques

Package

Name
reques
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Purl
pkg:pypi/reques

Affected ranges

Affected versions

2.*

2.28.1

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/reques/MAL-2025-1990.json"