CVE-2022-40424: Democritus Urls Project Democritus Urls

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The d8s-urls 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-networking package. The affected version of d8s-urls is 0.1.0

Affected products

• Democritus Urls Project Democritus Urls: version 0.1.0 only

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