CVE-2026-22871 HIGH

CVE-2026-22871: GuardDog Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Overwrite and RCE

Vendor Datadog
Product guarddog
Weakness CWE-22 · Path traversal
Published January 13, 2026
Last update January 13, 2026
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CVSS base score

8.7/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction —
Confidentiality —
Integrity —

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Prior to 2.7.1, there is a path traversal vulnerability exists in GuardDog's safe_extract() function that allows malicious PyPI packages to write arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory, leading to Arbitrary File Overwrite and Remote Code Execution on systems running GuardDog. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

January 13, 2026 CVE published
January 13, 2026 Record updated