Fully agree, worth re-iterating as the title doesn't make it clear.

The vulnerability is not in FastAPI itself, but in a relatively unknown utility package that you probably aren't using.

Still good to raise awareness but a slight bit of scaremongering

> Still good to raise awareness but a slight bit of scaremongering

It's not scaremongering as much as it is a (thinly veiled) ad for Datadog's own tech:

> using our latest open source tool, GuardDog, which uses heuristics to identify malicious or compromised PyPI packages.

> We recently released GuardDog, a free and open-source tool to identify malicious PyPI packages

> Datadog ASM Vulnerability Monitoring, announced earlier this year at Dash, allows you to identify vulnerable and malicious packages

> Datadog Cloud Workload Security has a number of out-of-the-box rules to detect post exploitation scenarios

Hello! One of the authors of the post here. Just added a sentence in the introduction to make it crystal clear:

> While FastAPI itself is not impacted, this is an interesting occurrence of an attacker attempting to deploy a FastAPI-specific backdoor.

Appreciate your feedback!

FYI: You left a name and email in the github history.

I know they are public via GH, but it feels weird to redact every piece of PII including avatar, then leaving a name and email in there.

Thanks for the heads-up, the goal was mostly avoiding that typing the author's name in Google brings up this post. I'll have it blurred for the sake of consistency, though.