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CVE-2026-44972

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 0.11%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.11%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. From 2.6.0 to 2.9.0, GuardDog includes attacker-controlled filenames, file locations, messages, and code snippets in its default human-readable output without escaping terminal control characters. A malicious package can therefore inject ANSI or OSC escape sequences into analyst terminals or CI logs.

CVSS 3.1: 5.0 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
EPSS: 0.11% probability · 1th percentile
Public exploits: None in Exploit-DB
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-116
Source: security-advisories@github.com

EPSS trend

EPSS 0.1% since 27 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/security/advisories/GHSA-m5p4-gvpx-4mvr

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.