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CVE-2022-40432

• 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-strings for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-hypothesis package. The affected version is 0.1.0.

Affected products

• D8S-Strings Project D8S-Strings: 0.1.0

References

• https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-strings/issues/21
• https://pypi.org/project/d8s-strings/
• https://pypi.org/project/democritus-hypothesis/
• https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-strings/issues/21
• https://pypi.org/project/d8s-strings/
• https://pypi.org/project/democritus-hypothesis/

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