CVSS 3.1
9.8 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-42040
Critical (9.8) in democritus d8s-algorithms. EPSS 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The d8s-algorithms 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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 6.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 93% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-434
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- democritus:d8s-algorithms
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PYSEC-2022-43019 | PyPI | d8s-algorithms | all versions | no fix published |
| PYSEC-2022-43038 | PyPI | democritus-dicts | all versions | no fix published |