CVE-2022-42036

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2022-42036 · PYSEC-2022-43030 · PYSEC-2022-43035 · Published 11/10/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-42036 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting d8s-urls, democritus-csv, d8s-urls (democritus).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 76.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
d8s-urls PyPI	`all versions`	No fix yet
democritus-csv PyPI	`all versions`	No fix yet
d8s-urls democritus	`= 0.1.0`	No fix yet

Description

The d8s-urls package for Python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-csv package. The affected version is 0.1.0.

NVD description

References

pypi.org/project/d8s-urls · PACKAGE
democritus-project/d8s-urls · REPORT
pypi.org/project/democritus-csv · PACKAGE

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