CVE-2022-40808: Democritus Dates Project Democritus Dates

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

The d8s-dates for python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-hypothesis package. The affected version is 0.1.0

Affected products

• Democritus Dates Project Democritus Dates: version 0.1.0 only

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