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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'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (bed3c7b9b467652f58bd7ff55383900d1e7fbe73c1acbce4c79e12040b96ce9f)
Analysis 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.

## Source: kam193 (922435cd67a39583e0143229da6822f691940fcea9f4b4b18203faa594a1debc)
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

- `brambletask`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.