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🛡️ MAL-2026-3692 — guan

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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Description

Malicious code in guan (PyPI)

Source: amazon-inspector

The top-level src/guan/__init__.py unconditionally calls statistics_of_guan_package() on every import guan. That function (in src/guan/others.py) opens a raw TCP socket to the hardcoded author-controlled endpoint socket.guanjihuan.com:12345 and sends a JSON payload containing the installer's MAC address (via uuid.getnode()), the guan package version, and timestamp. There is no opt-out, no documentation of this behavior in README/PKG-INFO, and no user consent. This constitutes silent collection of a stable hardware identifier from every machine that imports the package and transmits it to an author-controlled server — an installer-side data exfiltration pattern, not merely author-side self-harm. While the payload is narrow (MAC + version + time), MAC addresses are persistent hardware identifiers suitable for tracking, correlation, and deanonymization of developer/build machines.

Affected software

MAL-2026-3692 is recorded against 1 package.

  • guan

Timeline and source

Published on 12 May 2026 and last revised on 13 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

pypi.org (Package)
pypi.org (Package)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-05-12
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-13
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
guan

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