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id: "MAL-2025-191534"
kind: "package"
aliases: ["MAL-2025-191534"]
title: "Malicious code in tablates (PyPI)"
severity: "critical"
cvss: null
epss: null
exploited: false
status: "open"
category: "package"
products: [{"name": "tablates", "fixed": [], "affected": "all versions", "ecosystem": "pypi"}]
ecosystems: ["pypi"]
tags: ["malicious", "package"]
not_affected_if: []
published_at: "2025-11-26T10:20:42+00:00"
first_seen_at: "2026-10-30T10:28:28+00:00"
updated_at: "2026-10-30T10:28:57+00:00"
sources: [{"source": "osv-malicious", "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-191534", "first_seen_at": "2026-10-30T10:28:28+00:00"}]
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# Malicious code in tablates (PyPI)

## Affected

- pypi:tablates affected all versions fixed ?

## Timeline

- 2026-10-30T10:28:28+00:00 osv-malicious https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MAL-2025-191534

## From the sources

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## Source: google-open-source-security (56df7571e75ad7e85850f9a34bb482f19466af4481db56951ffba42475a4238d)
This package is malicious and typosquating the legitimate pyspellchecker library.
This package will deploy a remote-access trojan that allows the attacker full
control of the victim's host.

## Source: kam193 (a08f9f271e62949f07029e8c2dc7c8904e7272750fe9789442d4549be52c639f)
Packages contain hidden code that is effectively run during importing or using the library, and downloads second stage code. Then, a process running in background periodically connects to a remote host and waits for next code to execute


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


Campaign: 2025-11-spellcheckers


Reasons (based on the campaign):


 - obfuscation


 - Downloads and executes a remote malicious script.


 - The package contains code to execute remote commands (probably limited to a specific set) on the victim's machine.

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