CVE-2022-42043: Democritus d8s-XML

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Affected products

• Democritus d8s-XML: version 0.1.0 only

Published 2022-10-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.