{"cve":"CVE-2022-42039","nvd":{"published":"2022-10-11T22:15:11.993","modified":"2026-06-17T05:04:15.617","status":"Modified","description":"The d8s-lists package for Python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-dicts package. The affected version is 0.1.0.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":["CWE-434"],"references":["https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-lists/issues/18","https://pypi.org/project/d8s-lists/","https://pypi.org/project/democritus-dicts/","https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-lists/issues/18","https://pypi.org/project/d8s-lists/"],"products":["democritus:d8s-lists"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T21:36:05.460296998+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2022-42039","score":0.01672,"percentile":0.76826,"date":"2026-11-01"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"PYSEC-2022-43027","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2022-43027","summary":"","modified":"2023-11-08T04:10:37.653884Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"d8s-lists","purl":"pkg:pypi/d8s-lists","ranges":["all versions"],"fixed":[]}]},{"id":"PYSEC-2022-43037","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2022-43037","summary":"","modified":"2023-11-08T04:10:37.653884Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"democritus-dicts","purl":"pkg:pypi/democritus-dicts","ranges":["all versions"],"fixed":[]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}