PyPI
The Python Package Index, the official repository for third-party Python software packages and the central package management platform for the Python ecosystem, enabling developers worldwide to publish, discover, and install third-party libraries.
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PyPI (Python Package Index) has more than 500,000 open-source libraries.
uvx is a command provided by the Python package manager uv, functioning similarly to npx, allowing users to fetch and run a target package from PyPI in an isolated environment without prior installation.
The official OpenAI Python SDK released version v3.24.0.
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The HTTP2Shell vulnerability affects multiple Python HTTP libraries and applications, and the affected Python packages have high download counts on PyPI.
rag-critic is a lightweight Python package that acts as an adversarial verification node auditing responses before they reach the user; it can be installed via pip install rag-critic, uses the MIT license, and has been published to PyPI.
The TokenPrune project is open-sourced on GitHub (GeekyMK/tokenprune) and published to PyPI.
TokenPrune can be installed via pip install tokenprune.
Version 1.107.0 of the LiteLLM PyPI package was confirmed to contain credential-stealing code and backdoor logic less than two hours after release, and was subsequently taken down.
The LiteLLM 1.107.0 version on PyPI was tampered with, planting a credential stealer and backdoor upon installation.
PyPI supports Sigstore-signed Trusted Publishing, letting users verify that a distribution package was indeed produced by the project maintainer's CI pipeline.
The framework can be installed via PyPI under the package name AbstractIntegratedModule (pip install AbstractIntegratedModule).
According to The Hacker News, Operation GhostAction discovered by GitGuardian affected about 1,900 GitHub accounts and more than 30,000 repositories, with payloads attempting to steal 3,174 secrets from CI environments, including npm, PyPI, DockerHub, and AI vendor credentials.
The real sample expanded from 986 remote servers to the tool definitions of 14,933 npm and PyPI packages.
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PyPI (Python Package Index) has more than 500,000 open-source libraries.
80%Verifieduvx is a command provided by the Python package manager uv, functioning similarly to npx, allowing users to fetch and run a target package from PyPI in an isolated environment without prior installation.
65%VerifiedThe official OpenAI Python SDK released version v3.24.0.
90%UnverifiedCOGEXT offers a free tier, its official website is cogextai.com, and it can be installed via pip install cogext.
60%UnverifiedPublic package repositories such as npm, PyPI, and RubyGems generally adopt open registration mechanisms.
60%UnverifiedThe HTTP2Shell vulnerability affects multiple Python HTTP libraries and applications, and the affected Python packages have high download counts on PyPI.
50%Unverifiedrag-critic is a lightweight Python package that acts as an adversarial verification node auditing responses before they reach the user; it can be installed via pip install rag-critic, uses the MIT license, and has been published to PyPI.
50%UnverifiedTokenPrune can be installed via pip install tokenprune.
50%UnverifiedPyPI supports Sigstore-signed Trusted Publishing, letting users verify that a distribution package was indeed produced by the project maintainer's CI pipeline.
50%UnverifiedThe framework can be installed via PyPI under the package name AbstractIntegratedModule (pip install AbstractIntegratedModule).
50%UnverifiedAccording to The Hacker News, Operation GhostAction discovered by GitGuardian affected about 1,900 GitHub accounts and more than 30,000 repositories, with payloads attempting to steal 3,174 secrets from CI environments, including npm, PyPI, DockerHub, and AI vendor credentials.
50%UnverifiedThe real sample expanded from 986 remote servers to the tool definitions of 14,933 npm and PyPI packages.
50%UnverifiedWarderBox has been released on GitHub and PyPI, adopts an open-source model, and can be installed via pip install warderbox.
50%Unverifieddocstring-ai is an MIT-licensed open-source CLI tool, released in April 2026, maintained by one developer, supporting google, numpy and sphinx styles, able to generate in bulk and skip functions that already have docstrings, and requiring an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY.
50%UnverifiedPython on Vercel supports frameworks such as FastAPI, Flask, and Django, uses standard CPython and dependencies from PyPI under the hood, and Vercel handles framework detection, builds, and elastic scaling.
50%UnverifiedFor AP2 and ACP, the existence of officially published packages on npm/PyPI cannot be confirmed, so development can only be done by hand-writing implementations according to the specification.
50%Unverifiedopen-gsc-mcp is published on PyPI, uses the MIT license, and supports quick installation via uv
50%UnverifiedWaveWash's GitHub repository address is https://github.com/BoobalanArjunan/wavewash, and its PyPI page is https://pypi.org/project/wavewash/.
50%UnverifiedSimilar generalization risks exist in npm, PyPI, Docker Hub, and any artifact repository that allows open uploads.
50%UnverifiedThe colab-cli on PyPI (version 2.2.5) is unrelated to Google officially, and installing it downgrades click to 7.1.2 and typer to 0.1.1 and breaks the environment
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