{"id":"CVE-2022-40431","details":"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-networking package. The affected version is 0.1.0.","modified":"2026-07-15T01:49:12.164850006Z","published":"2022-09-19T15:11:37Z","database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"mitre","osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/40xxx/CVE-2022-40431.json"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/40xxx/CVE-2022-40431.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40431"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-pdfs/issues/5"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/democritus-networking/"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-pdfs","events":[{"introduced":"183bd3726c8937548e5a114ad7f99fc48623b66e"},{"last_affected":"183bd3726c8937548e5a114ad7f99fc48623b66e"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:d8s-pdfs_project:d8s-pdfs:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:python:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0.1.0"},{"last_affected":"0.1.0"}],"source":"CPE_STRING"}}],"versions":["0.1.0","v0.1.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-40431.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}