{"id":"MAL-2026-18162","title":"Malicious code in modelworks (PyPI)","summary":"Malicious code in modelworks (PyPI)","severity":"critical","exploited":true,"vendor":"modelworks","product":"modelworks","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["modelworks"],"published":"2026-10-22","updated":"2026-10-29","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-29T14:45:09.513357978Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18162","references":[{"url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/modelworks"},{"url":"https://pypi.org/project/modelworks/0.1.0/"}],"tags":["osv","pip","malware"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-22T11:56:43.876Z","slug":"MAL-2026-18162","body":"## Overview\n\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (7152b8dcf58e19c79d1f0622dab8f60fd17a1f21fc94d06d28fa6103c840d9fe)\nAnalysis of modelworks 0.1.0 on PyPI across 10 files produced no evidence of installer-harm behavior: no install-time or import-time network activity, no reads of installer credential paths (~/.aws, ~/.ssh, ~/.npmrc), no environment scraping, no fetch-and-execute of remote content, no persistence mechanisms, no silent-relay of caller data to a non-first-party destination, and no shipped third-party credentials. The package behaves as an inert small library at this version.\n\n## Source: kam193 (cd8881d21166c1b1d9e519b92d85228a8df0520e31bd5a3d6a3606513b66047a)\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 - other\n\n\n - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.\n\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `modelworks`\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":[]}