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CVE-2022-38792

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-08-27 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

The exotel (aka exotel-py) package in PyPI as of 0.1.6 includes a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party.

Affected products

• Exotel Project Exotel: 0.1.6

References

• https://github.com/jertel/elastalert2/pull/931
• https://github.com/sarathsp06/exotel-py/issues/10
• https://inspector.pypi.io/project/exotel/0.1.6/packages/8b/ed/9ebeb34d4adb9b01151d73ccfde9c1cb2d629c3b146953c8727559a65446/exotel-0.1.6.tar.gz/exotel-0.1.6/setup.py
• https://pypi.org/project/exotel/
• https://github.com/jertel/elastalert2/pull/931
• https://github.com/sarathsp06/exotel-py/issues/10
• https://inspector.pypi.io/project/exotel/0.1.6/packages/8b/ed/9ebeb34d4adb9b01151d73ccfde9c1cb2d629c3b146953c8727559a65446/exotel-0.1.6.tar.gz/exotel-0.1.6/setup.py
• https://pypi.org/project/exotel/

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