CVE-2022-38885

critical

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. The affected version is 0.1.0.

References

https://pypi.org/project/democritus-strings/

https://pypi.org/project/d8s-netstrings/

https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-netstrings/issues/4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-09-19

Updated: 2022-09-21

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H