CVE-2022-23530
GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.75%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to v0.1.8 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package. Extracting files using shutil.unpack_archive() from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is within the intended destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten. This issue is patched in version 0.1.8. Potential workarounds include using a safer module, like zipfile, and validating the location of the extracted files and discarding those with malicious paths.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.75% probability · 55th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-22
- Affected
- datadoghq/guarddog
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
EPSS 0.8% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/blob/a1d064ceb09d39bb28deb6972bc0a278756ea91f/guarddog/scanners/package_scanner.py#L153..158Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/37c7d0767ba28f4df46117d478f97652594c491cPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-78m5-jpmf-ch7vExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/blob/a1d064ceb09d39bb28deb6972bc0a278756ea91f/guarddog/scanners/package_scanner.py#L153..158Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/37c7d0767ba28f4df46117d478f97652594c491cPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-78m5-jpmf-ch7vExploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.