CVE-2022-42040

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2022-42040 · PYSEC-2022-43019 · PYSEC-2022-43038 · Published 11/10/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-42040 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting d8s-algorithms, democritus-dicts, d8s-algorithms (democritus).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 6.7%, higher than 93.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
d8s-algorithms PyPI	`all versions`	No fix yet
democritus-dicts PyPI	`all versions`	No fix yet
d8s-algorithms democritus	`= 0.1.0`	No fix yet

Description

The d8s-algorithms 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.

NVD description

References

pypi.org/project/democritus-dicts · PACKAGE
dadadadada111/info · REPORT
pypi.org/project/d8s-algorithms · PACKAGE

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