CVE-2026-22871

CRITICAL SEVERITY

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Base Score

9.8 / 10

Vector String

                                        CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H                                    

Vulnerability 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.

Vulnerability Details

Published Date

January 13, 2026

Last Modified

January 21, 2026

CWE ID

CWE-22

Source

NVD

Vendor

datadoghq

Product

guarddog

External References

https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/9aa6a725b2c71d537d3c18d1c15621395ebb879c
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-xg9w-vg3g-6m68

CVE-2026-22871

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