CVE-2026-22871

Published January 13th, 2026

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CVSS v3

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS v2

N/A

Affected

PROJECT

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.

DataDog/guarddog

:snake: :mag: GuardDog is a CLI tool to Identify malicious PyPI and npm packages

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