PT-2022-37387 · Pypi · D8S-Xml+1

Published 2022-09-19 · Updated 2022-09-19

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-xml version 0.1.0

Description The d8s-xml 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, avoid using the democritus-strings package until a safe version of d8s-xml is available. Consider removing the democritus-strings package as a temporary mitigation measure. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

PYSEC-2022-43124

Affected Products

D8S-Xml

Democritus-Strings

References · 4

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2022-43124 · Vendor Advisory
• https://pypi.org/project/d8s-xml · Note
• https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-xml/issues/10 · Note
• https://pypi.org/project/democritus-strings · Note