🛡️ CVE-2022-42042 — d8s-networking

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ⚠️ Exploit Public OSV
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2022-42042 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • d8s-networking
  • democritus-hashes

Timeline and source

Published on 11 October 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from OSV.

References

pypi.org (Package)
github.com (Report)
pypi.org (Package)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source OSV
Published 2022-10-11
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
d8s-networking — —
democritus-hashes — —

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