CVE-2026-44972 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-44972: GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content

Vendor Datadog
Product guarddog
Weakness CWE-116
Published May 27, 2026
Last update May 27, 2026

CVSS base score

5.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. From 2.6.0 to 2.9.0, GuardDog includes attacker-controlled filenames, file locations, messages, and code snippets in its default human-readable output without escaping terminal control characters. A malicious package can therefore inject ANSI or OSC escape sequences into analyst terminals or CI logs.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

May 27, 2026 CVE published
May 27, 2026 Record updated