CVE-2026-22871 — GuardDog Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Overwrite and RCE
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 mali…
Published: 2026-01-13 · CVSS: 8.7 · CVSS 4.0
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7