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Medium · 5.8 CVE-2022-23531 EUVD-2022-0118GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vqPYSEC-2022-42994

Arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted local PyPI package

Published Dec 16, 2022 · Updated Apr 17, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
DataDog guarddog < 0.1.5 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI guarddog < 0.1.5 0.1.5 GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vq

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