CVE-2022-42039

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / CVE-2022-42039

    CVE-2022-42039

    Published: 11 Oct 2022Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: The d8s-lists package for Python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-dicts package. The affected version is 0.1.0.

    References: https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/42xxx/CVE-2022-42039.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42039, https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-lists/issues/18, https://pypi.org/project/d8s-lists/, https://pypi.org/project/democritus-dicts/

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 24480b880a4150ffb54d4b658b06e800c96b2371
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2022-42039 | CVE-DB