PT-2022-24610 · Pypi · Democritus-Strings+1

Di1L0O · Published 2022-09-19 · Updated 2022-09-21 · CVE-2022-38885

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions d8s-netstrings version 0.1.0

Description The d8s-netstrings for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-strings package.

Recommendations For version 0.1.0, consider removing or avoiding the use of the democritus-strings package to minimize the risk of code execution. As a temporary workaround, restrict access to the d8s-netstrings package until a safe version is available. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Exploit

Fix

Unrestricted File Upload

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-434

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-38885

Affected Products

D8S-Netstrings

Democritus-Strings

References · 6

• 🔥 https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-netstrings/issues/4 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38885 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-38885 · Vendor Advisory
• https://pypi.org/project/d8s-netstrings · Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/36613 · Telegram Post
• https://pypi.org/project/democritus-strings · Note