{"id":"MAL-2026-18223","title":"Malicious code in brambletask (PyPI)","summary":"Malicious code in brambletask (PyPI)","severity":"critical","exploited":true,"vendor":"brambletask","product":"brambletask","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["brambletask"],"published":"2026-10-23","updated":"2026-10-29","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-29T14:45:10.301347522Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18223","references":[{"url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/brambletask"},{"url":"https://pypi.org/project/brambletask/0.1.0/"}],"tags":["osv","pip","malware"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-24T11:59:36.108Z","slug":"MAL-2026-18223","body":"## Overview\n\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (bed3c7b9b467652f58bd7ff55383900d1e7fbe73c1acbce4c79e12040b96ce9f)\nAnalysis of brambletask 0.1.0 on PyPI surfaced no indicators of supply-chain attack behavior. No install-time or import-time network activity, no credential or filesystem harvesting, no fetch-and-execute of remote content, and no persistence or backdoor mechanisms were observed in the package's shipped files.\n\n## Source: kam193 (922435cd67a39583e0143229da6822f691940fcea9f4b4b18203faa594a1debc)\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- `brambletask`\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":[]}