{"id":"CVE-2022-38885","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-12T05:05:59.401630Z","published":"2022-09-19T16:15:11.707Z","references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-netstrings/issues/4"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/d8s-netstrings/"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://pypi.org/project/democritus-strings/"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/democritus-project/d8s-netstrings","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"9a3e201355f23427a0a48ec4e000257c81f197e1"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:d8s-netstrings_project:d8s-netstrings:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:python:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"0.1.0"}],"source":"CPE_FIELD"}}],"versions":["v0.1.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-38885.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}