{"id":"MAL-2026-18234","title":"Malicious code in reedworker (PyPI)","summary":"Malicious code in reedworker (PyPI)","severity":"critical","exploited":true,"vendor":"reedworker","product":"reedworker","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["reedworker"],"published":"2026-10-23","updated":"2026-10-29","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-29T14:45:08.559585473Z","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18234","references":[{"url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/reedworker"},{"url":"https://pypi.org/project/reedworker/0.1.0/"}],"tags":["osv","pip","malware"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-24T11:59:36.112Z","slug":"MAL-2026-18234","body":"## Overview\n\n\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: amazon-inspector (90e3e7e4b377a02ec129d648a7b048736d59389c30267009fc378ed3c1e48dbc)\nAnalysis of reedworker 0.1.0 on PyPI surfaced no indicators of supply-chain attack behavior. No install-time or import-time network activity, no credential or environment scraping, no fetch-and-execute of remote content, no persistence mechanisms, and no silent-relay or backdoor patterns were identified in the shipped files.\n\n## Source: kam193 (f309ea93245f05b07163de9b85a0e47dcd64eeaec705794c502b21429eced883)\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- `reedworker`\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":[]}