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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\u2019 account workflow that gave access to its signing keys and other sensitive information.<\/p>\n

On Friday, unknown attackers exploited the vulnerability to push a new version of element-data<\/a>, a command-line interface that helps users monitor performance and anomalies in machine-learning systems. When run, the malicious package scoured systems for sensitive data, including user profiles, warehouse credentials, cloud provider keys, API tokens, and SSH keys, developers said<\/a>. The malicious version was tagged as 0.23.3 and was published to the developers\u2019 Python Package Index and Docker image accounts. It was removed about 12 hours later, on Saturday. Elementary Cloud, the Elementary dbt package, and all other CLI versions weren’t affected.<\/p>\n

Assume compromise<\/h2>\n

\u201cUsers 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,\u201d the developers wrote.<\/p>\n

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