GHSA-cv6j-9835-p7fh

exotel-py includes code execution backdoor inserted by a third party

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2022-38792

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	exotel	0.1.6	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

The exotel (aka exotel-py) package in PyPI as of 0.1.6 includes a code execution backdoor inserted by a third party. Users should downgrade to version 0.1.5 to avoid the problem.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38792 advisory
https://github.com/sarathsp06/exotel-py/issues/10 web
https://github.com/jertel/elastalert2/pull/931 web
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/exotel/PYSEC-2022-43134.yaml web
https://github.com/sarathsp06/exotel-py package
https://inspector.pypi.io/project/exotel/0.1.6/packages/8b/ed/9ebeb34d4adb9b01151d73ccfde9c1cb2d629c3b146953c8727559a65446/exotel-0.1.6.tar.… web
https://pypi.org/project/exotel web