OSV Withdraws 157 Malware Reports After Automated False Positives Hit npm and PyPI

OSV, the OpenSSF-backed vulnerability database, withdrew 157 malicious-package reports on May 26 after automated detections incorrectly flagged npm and PyPI packages as malware, pushing bad records for trusted projects into OSV-consuming security tools and CI/CD systems. The rollback happened in OpenSSF’s malicious-packages repository, where OSV-format records for malicious packages are maintained. A PR titled “Withdraw FastAPI v0.136.3 and other FPs reports,” began with a false-positive…