Vulnerability · Published Sep 19, 2022 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2022-40812

Critical 9.8

In plain English

A critical-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 29.4% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The d8s-pdfs for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-file-system package. The affected version is 0.1.0.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://pypi.org/project/democritus-file-system/ x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-pdfs/issues/6 x_refsource_MISC