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CVE-2022-38881
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2022-09-19 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-434
Description
The d8s-archives for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-strings package. The affected version is 0.1.0.
Affected products
References
- https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-archives/issues/12
- https://pypi.org/project/d8s-archives/
- https://pypi.org/project/democritus-strings/
- https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-archives/issues/12
- https://pypi.org/project/d8s-archives/
- https://pypi.org/project/democritus-strings/
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