Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Sep 19, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2022-38881

Description

The d8s-archives 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.

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Affected products

python/d8s-archivesdescription
D8s Archives/d8s-archivesllm-create
Range: =0.1.0
democritus-project/democritus-stringsllm-fuzzy
Range: =0.1.0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

github.com/democritus-project/d8s-archives/issues/12nvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
pypi.org/project/d8s-archives/nvdProduct
pypi.org/project/democritus-strings/nvdProduct

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