Business · Ars Technica
Open source package with 1M monthly downloads stole user credentials
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Open source software with more than 1 million monthly downloads was compromised after a threat actor exploited a vulnerability in the developers’ account workflow that gave access to its signing keys and other sensitive information.
Key facts
- The malicious version was tagged as 0.23.3 and was published to the developers’ Python Package Index and Docker image accounts
- Rotate any credentials that were accessible from the environment where 0.23.3 ran – dbt profiles, warehouse credentials, cloud provider keys, API tokens, SSH keys, and the contents of any.env files
- The developers are urging all developers who installed version 0.23.3 to take the following steps immediately
- If the version is 0.23.3, uninstall it and replace it with the safe version
Summary
On Friday, unknown attackers exploited the vulnerability to push a new version of element-data, a command-line interface that helps users monitor performance and anomalies in machine-learning systems. The malicious version was tagged as 0.23.3 and was published to the developers’ Python Package Index and Docker image accounts. “Users who installed 0.23.3, or who pulled and ran the affected Docker image, should assume that any credentials accessible to the environment where it ran may have been exposed,” the developers wrote. The threat actor gained access to the developers’ account by exploiting a vulnerability in a GitHub action they created. The developers learned of the compromise from a third-party issue report.