VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-23531

CVSS score5.8 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.73%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-12-17
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

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.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-23
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

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