VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-22870

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability0.51%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-01-13
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Prior to 2.7.1, GuardDog's safe_extract() function does not validate decompressed file sizes when extracting ZIP archives (wheels, eggs), allowing attackers to cause denial of service through zip bombs. A malicious package can consume gigabytes of disk space from a few megabytes of compressed data. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.1.

Weakness classification

  • security-advisories@github.com: CWE-409

Primary references