CVE-2026-44972 — GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content
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 …
Published: 2026-05-27 · CVSS: 5.0 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7