CVE-2022-23531

MEDIUM

GuardDog < 0.1.5 - Arbitrary File Write via Tarfile Extraction Path Traversal

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to 0.1.5 are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal when scanning a specially-crafted local PyPI package. Running GuardDog against a specially-crafted package can allow an attacker to write an arbitrary file on the machine where GuardDog is executed due to a path traversal vulnerability when extracting the .tar.gz file of the package being scanned, which exists by design in the tarfile.TarFile.extractall function. This issue is patched in version 0.1.5.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/releases/tag/v0.1.5

Scores

CVSS v3 5.8
EPSS 0.0059
EPSS Percentile 43.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-22 CWE-23
Status published
Products (2)
datadoghq/guarddog < 0.1.5
pypi/guarddog 0 - 0.1.5PyPI
Published Dec 17, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026