CVE-2022-40432

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2022-40432 · Published 19/09/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-40432 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting d8s-strings (d8s-strings project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
d8s-strings d8s-strings_project	`= 0.1.0`	No fix yet

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.

References

democritus-project/d8s-strings · Exploit
pypi.org/project/d8s-strings · Product
pypi.org/project/democritus-hypothesis · Product

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