CVE-2022-40812: Democritus Pdfs Project Democritus Pdfs

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Democritus Pdfs Project Democritus Pdfs: version 0.1.0 only

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