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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.7 High

CVE-2026-22871

GuardDog Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Overwrite and RCE

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
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Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Prior to 2.7.1, there is a path traversal vulnerability exists in GuardDog's safe_extract() function that allows malicious PyPI packages to write arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory, leading to Arbitrary File Overwrite and Remote Code Execution on systems running GuardDog. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.1.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

DataDog guarddog

  • < 2.7.1affected

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