Resolved incident

Malicious takeover of ctx project on PyPI.

PyPI · None · Started

Duration
< 1m
Severity
None
Status
Postmortem

Summary

None · Postmortem

Takeover of the ctx project was reported on multiple channels overnight and was mitigated as of 6:07 AM Eastern. We confirmed via investigation that this compromise was of a single user account due to re-registration over an expired domain. The domain that hosted the users email address was re-registered 2022-05-14T18:40:05Z and a password reset completed successfully for the user at 2022-05-14T18:52:40Z. Original releases were then deleted and malicious copies uploaded. PyPI itself was not directly compromised. Read the full incident report at [https://python-security.readthedocs.io/pypi-vuln/index-2022-05-24-ctx-domain-takeover.html](https://python-security.readthedocs.io/pypi-vuln/index-2022-05-24-ctx-domain-takeover.html).

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Event timeline

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  1. Postmortem

    PyPI

    Takeover of the ctx project was reported on multiple channels overnight and was mitigated as of 6:07 AM Eastern. We confirmed via investigation that this compromise was of a single user account due to re-registration over an expired domain. The domain that hosted the users email address was re-registered 2022-05-14T18:40:05Z and a password reset completed successfully for the user at 2022-05-14T18:52:40Z. Original releases were then deleted and malicious copies uploaded. PyPI itself was not directly compromised. Read the full incident report at [https://python-security.readthedocs.io/pypi-vuln/index-2022-05-24-ctx-domain-takeover.html](https://python-security.readthedocs.io/pypi-vuln/index-2022-05-24-ctx-domain-takeover.html).

  2. Resolved

    PyPI

    This incident has been resolved.