PT-2022-25552 · Pypi · D8S-Pdfs+1

Di1L0O · Published 2022-09-19 · Updated 2022-09-21 · CVE-2022-40812

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-pdfs version 0.1.0

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.

Recommendations For version 0.1.0, consider removing or avoiding the use of the democritus-file-system package to minimize the risk of code execution. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2022-40812

Affected Products

D8S-Pdfs

Democritus-File-System

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-40812 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40812 · Security Note
• https://pypi.org/project/democritus-file-system · Note
• https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-pdfs/issues/6 · Note