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id: MAL-2026-17455
title: Malicious code in dedh-devops-automation (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in dedh-devops-automation (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: dedh-devops-automation
product: dedh-devops-automation
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - dedh-devops-automation
published: '2026-10-02'
updated: '2026-10-08'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-08T06:45:20.348882614Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-17455'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/dedh-devops-automation'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/dedh-devops-automation/5.8.0/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/dedh-devops-automation/5.6.999/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/dedh-devops-automation/5.8.1/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/dedh-devops-automation/0.0.1/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/dedh-devops-automation/5.0.0/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/dedh-devops-automation/5.6.0/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/dedh-devops-automation/5.9.0/'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/dedh-devops-automation/5.6.1/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-03T07:26:10.021Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (35e844ac2e44aa325f62eaf6a81e4775c3694320b567f834689e26ac5c961b76)
The package was found to contain malicious code or consuming dependency that contains malicious code

## Source: kam193 (e623272b4de65cc8af24a44d5405d9f6baa2c42896b50f9b7e0e5f294bfd2722)
During installation, the package deploys a rogue AWS Lambda function to collect credentials from Secret Manager as well as collect other data. Data are then exfiltrated.


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Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.


Campaign: 2026-10-spo365-graph


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - The package overrides the install command in setup.py to execute malicious code during installation.


 - exfiltration-cloud-tokens


 - exfiltration-credentials


 - targetted-attack


## Affected packages

- `dedh-devops-automation`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.