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Embedded Malicious Code in ctx

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 2, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 11, 2023

Package

pip ctx (pip)

Affected versions

>= 0.1.2-1

Patched versions

None

Description

The ctx hosted project on PyPI was taken over via user account compromise and replaced with a malicious project which contained runtime code which collected the content of os.environ.items() when instantiating Ctx objects.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 2, 2022
Reviewed Jun 2, 2022
Last updated Jan 11, 2023

Severity

Critical

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-67r3-h899-9w95

Source code

No known source code
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