{"id":"MAL-2026-18153","title":"Malicious code in hookgantry (PyPI)","summary":"Malicious code in hookgantry (PyPI)","severity":"critical","exploited":true,"vendor":"hookgantry","product":"hookgantry","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["hookgantry"],"published":"2026-10-22","updated":"2026-10-29","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-29T14:45:07.722124201Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18153","references":[{"url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/hookgantry"},{"url":"https://pypi.org/project/hookgantry/0.1.0/"}],"tags":["osv","pip","malware"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-22T11:56:43.872Z","slug":"MAL-2026-18153","body":"## Overview\n\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (bc8005889d1341b2a59a879ac055990fc071ea11c67093f04f88ebf15caeb90e)\nThe package hookgantry 0.1.0 was scanned and no indicators of installer-side harm were found. There is no evidence of install-time or import-time network activity, no credential or environment harvesting, no fetch-and-execute dropper, no silent relay of caller data, and no persistence mechanism.\n\n## Source: kam193 (8f2adef4202c047248aedfecfea60e5c71798b9a9f15999a7f9c76e6a5471dab)\nThis campaign consists of similar loader packages, which provide executing code from a given URL. While they do not contain the malicious payload and the usage remains unknown, they are clearly a coordinated campaign to place multiple deceptive ways to load malicious code.\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2026-10-voice-synthesis-profiles\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.\n\n\n - other\n\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `hookgantry`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the advisory for the patched release.","depth":"abyssal","depthScore":70,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":52.3,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":18,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}