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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'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (90e3e7e4b377a02ec129d648a7b048736d59389c30267009fc378ed3c1e48dbc)
Analysis 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.

## Source: kam193 (f309ea93245f05b07163de9b85a0e47dcd64eeaec705794c502b21429eced883)
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

- `reedworker`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.