{"id":"MAL-2026-18166","title":"Malicious code in speakbench (PyPI)","summary":"Malicious code in speakbench (PyPI)","severity":"critical","exploited":true,"vendor":"speakbench","product":"speakbench","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["speakbench"],"published":"2026-10-22","updated":"2026-10-29","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-29T14:45:10.263155043Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18166","references":[{"url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/speakbench"},{"url":"https://pypi.org/project/speakbench/0.1.0/"}],"tags":["osv","pip","malware"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-22T11:56:43.877Z","slug":"MAL-2026-18166","body":"## Overview\n\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (6be2f131c6ccc3795c4cee48c62afe35c2b1290d788d2f59a83abc887ebde897)\nAnalysis of speakbench 0.1.0 across 10 files produced no indicators of installer-side harm. No install-time or import-time network activity, no credential or filesystem secret reads, no fetch-and-execute of remote content, no lifecycle-script shell execution, and no obfuscated or hardcoded exfiltration destinations were observed.\n\n## Source: kam193 (5261cd9950cdef43aa82af72e1a479d8668a37b06d1fce0a6b8ff869e0620ed2)\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- `speakbench`\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":[]}