CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-40806

Published: Sep 19, 2022 | Modified: Sep 21, 2022

CVSS 3.x

9.8

CRITICAL

Source:

NVD

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-40806
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

The d8s-uuids for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-hypothesis package. The affected version is 0.1.0

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Democritus_uuids	Democritus_uuids_project	0.1.0 (including)	0.1.0 (including)

References

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