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id: MAL-2026-18236
title: Malicious code in sedgehaul (PyPI)
summary: Malicious code in sedgehaul (PyPI)
severity: critical
exploited: true
vendor: sedgehaul
product: sedgehaul
ecosystem: pip
affected:
  - sedgehaul
published: '2026-10-23'
updated: '2026-10-29'
sourceUpdated: '2026-10-29T14:45:11.087859996Z'
source: OSV
sourceUrl: 'https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2026-18236'
references:
  - url: 'https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/sedgehaul'
  - url: 'https://pypi.org/project/sedgehaul/0.1.0/'
tags:
  - osv
  - pip
  - malware
ingestedAt: '2026-10-24T11:59:36.113Z'
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## Overview


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## Source: amazon-inspector (4cde2a585dd043f57af2c96aa193590190a335a411f0b2fa2f52d0ee2ec17bb9)
Package sedgehaul version 0.1.0 was scanned across 11 files. No install-time or import-time network activity, credential or filesystem access to installer-secret paths, lifecycle shell execution, remote fetch-and-execute, silent relay, or persistence mechanism was observed in the shipped contents.

## Source: kam193 (1eccea61ba89da6dd32ddad1e54e70f52c5a2b2c9aeeced8a80e068ef63dccd4)
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

- `sedgehaul`

## Remediation

Refer to the advisory for the patched release.