Summary
donbr/lifesciences-research v2026-02-26 was classified as CRITICAL RISK with a risk score of 565. Sigil detected 55 findings across 479 files, covering phases including network exfiltration, provenance, code patterns, obfuscation, install hooks. Review the findings below before installing this package.
Package description: AI Agent wrappers for Life Sciences APIs (Open Targets, ChEMBL, UniProt). Accelerating drug discovery with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and FastMCP.
v2026-02-26
20 March 2026, 17:57 UTC
by Sigil Bot
Risk Score
565
Findings
55
Files Scanned
479
Provenance
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install-pip-setup-exec
CRITICALsetup.py executes code at install time
repo/specs/012-wikipathways-mcp-server/tasks.md:18
## Phase 1: Setup (Shared Infrastructure)
Why was this flagged?
This setup.py calls subprocess, os.system, exec, or eval during package installation. Legitimate packages rarely need to execute arbitrary commands at install time. This pattern is commonly used by malicious packages to download and run payloads, exfiltrate environment variables, or establish persistence. Rated CRITICAL because it runs with the installer's full permissions.
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