Headline
CVE-2022-41387: d8s-pdfs
The d8s-pdfs package for Python, as distributed on PyPI, included a potential code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. The backdoor is the democritus-urls package. The affected version is 0.1.0.
Project description
Democritus Pdfs
Democritus functions[1] for working with PDFs.
[1] Democritus functions are simple, effective, modular, well-tested, and well-documented Python functions.
We use d8s (pronounced “dee-eights”) as an abbreviation for democritus (you can read more about this here).
Installation
pip install d8s-pdfs
Usage
You import the library like:
from d8s_pdfs import *
Once imported, you can use any of the functions listed below.
Functions
- def pdf_read(pdf_path: str) -> Iterable[str]: “""Get the string from the PDF at the given path/URL.""”
Development
👋 If you want to get involved in this project, we have some short, helpful guides below:
- contribute to this project 🥇
- test it 🧪
- lint it 🧹
- explore it 🔭
If you have any questions or there is anything we did not cover, please raise an issue and we’ll be happy to help.
Credits
This package was created with Cookiecutter and Floyd Hightower’s Python project template.
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