PT-2022-25548 · Pypi · Democritus-Hypothesis+1

Di1L0O · Published 2022-09-19 · Updated 2022-09-21 · CVE-2022-40809

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-dicts version 0.1.0

Description The d8s-dicts package for Python, distributed on PyPI, contains a potential code-execution backdoor. This backdoor is attributed to the democritus-hypothesis package, which was inserted by a third party.

Recommendations For version 0.1.0, avoid using the d8s-dicts package until a safe version is available. As a temporary workaround, consider removing or restricting access to the democritus-hypothesis package to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-40809

Affected Products

D8S-Dicts

Democritus-Hypothesis

References · 4

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40809 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-40809 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-dicts/issues/6 · Note
• https://pypi.org/project/democritus-hypothesis · Note