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🛡️ CVE-2022-44054 — d8s-xml

🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-434 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

The d8s-xml for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. A potential code execution backdoor inserted by third parties is the democritus-utility package. The affected version of d8s-htm 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.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-44054 is classified as CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type. Uploads are accepted without restricting type, so an executable file can be placed where the server will run it.

Affected software

CVE-2022-44054 is recorded against 1 package.

  • d8s-xml

Timeline and source

Published on 7 November 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
pypi.org
pypi.org
github.com
pypi.org
pypi.org

Other advisories for this package

d8s-xml has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-434: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type) in other software:

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 CWE-434
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-11-07
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
d8s-xml — —

References

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/dadadadada111/info/issues/18
Product, Vendor Advisory https://pypi.org/project/d8s-xml/
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory https://github.com/dadadadada111/info/issues/18
Product, Vendor Advisory https://pypi.org/project/d8s-xml/

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