PyPI PACKAGE

pipx 1.18.16

Warn

PkgFire would install this release with a warning.·Checked 1 hour ago·Published 7 November 2026

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Why

  • warnSuspicious behaviour

    Detects suspicious autostart persistence mechanisms

  • warnRelease cooldown

    Published less than an hour ago, inside the 7-day cooldown. Most malicious releases are pulled within hours of publication, so a version this new has not yet had time to be caught.

Provenance

A registry signature proves the registry served these bytes unaltered. Build provenance proves which workflow built them from which commit; a stolen publishing token can fake the first but not the second.

Signature
Not signed
Build provenance
Attested

What the code does

On its own this is weak signal: plenty of honest libraries read files or talk to the network. What PkgFire watches is a release gaining something the one before it did not.

Code reading

PkgFire's own reading of the files: what the code can do.

  • code-credentialssrc/pipx/commands/run.py
  • code-execsrc/pipx/backends/_base.py, src/pipx/backends/pip.py, src/pipx/backends/uv.py, src/pipx/commands/interpreter.py, src/pipx/commands/manifest.py
  • code-networksrc/pipx/commands/run.py, src/pipx/main.py, src/pipx/package_specifier.py, src/pipx/script.py, src/pipx/standalone_python.py

Source patterns

Patterns found in the source, including those malware is known to use.

  • capability-filesystem-delete
  • capability-filesystem-read
  • capability-filesystem-write-executable
  • capability-network-outbound
  • capability-process-spawn
  • threat-filesystem-autostart

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