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CVE-2026-22871

GuardDog Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Overwrite and RCE

Published: Jan 13, 2026Updated: Jan 21, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-22
9.8CRITICAL
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.0%
Top 40.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected Products

datadoghq
commercial·US
guarddogSaaS
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
PyPI
package-ecosystem
guarddog
OSS Libraries
DataDog
commercial
guarddogMixed
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring

Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
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References

https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/9aa6a725b2c71d537d3c18d1c15621395ebb879c
github.com
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-xg9w-vg3g-6m68
github.com
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22871
nvd.nist.gov
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