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id: MAL-2026-18165
title: Malicious code in soundsocket (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in soundsocket (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: soundsocket
product: soundsocket
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - soundsocket
published: '2026-10-22'
updated: '2026-10-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-29T14:45:08.570145244Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18165'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/soundsocket'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/soundsocket/0.1.0/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-22T11:56:43.877Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (17292086eb906d22ce89e72fb3d6f1bd9edf44d8bb7a7caa319cee80ee6381bb)
No install-time or import-time behavior consistent with credential access, outbound exfiltration, remote code fetch/execution, persistence, or silent-relay was observed in this package version. No lifecycle hooks performing network I/O, no.pth side effects beyond sys.path handling, and no top-level subprocess/network activity were identified in the shipped files.

## Source: kam193 (9b50b12b54ecdc99f678332cf4a8e2d333ce5398c1c545eb994d2f368843cb03)
This 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.


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


Campaign: 2026-10-voice-synthesis-profiles


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - other


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


## Affected packages

- `soundsocket`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.