Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-40812

Critical

Published: 19 September 2022

Published
19 September 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0064 71.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-40812 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Democritus Pdfs Project Democritus Pdfs. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 29.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as Other AI Platforms.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-Other

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
Other AI Platforms
Risk Domain
N/A
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: backdoor, backdoor

Related Threats

Affected Assets

democritus pdfs project
democritus pdfs
0.1.0

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References