CVE-2022-38885: d8s-Netstrings Project d8s-Netstrings

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The d8s-netstrings 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.

Affected products

• d8s-Netstrings Project d8s-Netstrings: version 0.1.0 only

Published 2022-09-19. Last modified 2026-06-17.