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๐Ÿ”ฌ AnalysisSchneier on Securityยท56d ago

Python Supply-Chain Compromise

This is news : A malicious supply chain compromise has been identified in the Python Package Index package litellm version 1.82.8. The published wheel contains a malicious .pth file (litellm_init.pth, 34,628 bytes) which is automatically executed by the Python interpreter on every startup, without requiring any explicit import of the litellm module. There are a lot of really boring things we need to do to help secure all of these critical libraries: SBOMs, SLSA, SigStore. But we have to do them.

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Originally published by Schneier on Security

Source: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/04/python-supply-chain-compromise.html

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