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CVE-2022-23531

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.8
Exploit probability55. percentile0.7%
ProductDatadoghq Guarddog
PublishedDec 17, 2022
First seenDec 17, 2022
Weakness typeCWE-23CWE-23

How to fix

Update
  • datadoghq guarddog0.1.5 or later
  • guarddog0.1.5 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
datadoghq guarddogv < 0.1.50.1.5
guarddogPyPIv < 0.1.50.1.5

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