CVE-2022-33003: Pypi Watools

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The watools package in PyPI v0.0.1 to v0.0.8 was discovered to contain a code execution backdoor via the request package. This vulnerability allows attackers to access sensitive user information and digital currency keys, as well as escalate privileges.

Affected products

  • Pypi Watools: from 0.0.1, up to and including 0.0.8

Published 2022-06-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.