CVE-2026-44972

MEDIUM

GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References

Scores

CVSS v3 5.0
EPSS 0.0011
EPSS Percentile 1.7%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-116
Status published
Products (2)
DataDog/guarddog >= 2.6.0, <= 2.9.0
pypi/guarddog 2.6.0 - 2.9.0PyPI
Published May 27, 2026
Tracked Since May 27, 2026