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CVE-2022-42039

• 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: yes
• Published: 2022-10-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-434

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.

Affected products

• Democritus D8S-Lists: 0.1.0

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/
• https://pypi.org/project/democritus-dicts/

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