
Cloud Vulnerability DB
A community-led vulnerabilities database
The CVE-2022-40805 vulnerability affects the d8s-urls Python package version 0.1.0, as distributed on PyPI. The vulnerability involves a potential code-execution backdoor that was inserted by a third party through the democritus-hypothesis package (GitHub Issue, NVD).
The vulnerability exists in version 0.1.0 of the d8s-urls package when installed from PyPI. The malicious code was introduced through a dependency on the democritus-hypothesis package, which could contain arbitrary code execution capabilities. The package can be installed using the command pip install d8s-urls==0.1.0 (GitHub Issue).
The vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary malicious code through the compromised package. This could potentially lead to unauthorized access to sensitive user information and system compromise when the affected version is installed and used (GitHub Issue).
Users should avoid using version 0.1.0 of the d8s-urls package. The recommendation is to remove version 0.1.0 from PyPI to prevent further installations of the compromised package (GitHub Issue).
Source: This report was generated using AI
Free Vulnerability Assessment
Evaluate your cloud security practices across 9 security domains to benchmark your risk level and identify gaps in your defenses.
Get a personalized demo
"Best User Experience I have ever seen, provides full visibility to cloud workloads."
"Wiz provides a single pane of glass to see what is going on in our cloud environments."
"We know that if Wiz identifies something as critical, it actually is."