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Vulnerability record · CVE-2022-23530 · published 16 December 2022

CVE-2022-23530: Datadoghq guarddog path traversal vulnerability

Datadoghq · Guarddog

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to v0.1.8 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package. Extracting files using shutil.unpack_archive() from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is within the intended destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten. This issue is patched in version 0.1.8. Potential workarounds include using a safer module, like zipfile, and validating the location of the extracted files and discarding those with malicious paths.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.72% · top 47.8% CWE-22 · Path traversal
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score
0.72%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References, 4 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to v0.1.8 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package. Extracting files using shutil.unpack_archive() from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is within the intended destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten. This issue is patched in version 0.1.8. Potential workarounds include using a safer module, like zipfile, and validating the location of the extracted files and discarding those with malicious paths.

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/blob/a1d064ceb09d39bb28deb6972bc0a278756ea91f/guarddog/scanners/package_scanner.py#L ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/37c7d0767ba28f4df46117d478f97652594c491c PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-78m5-jpmf-ch7v ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/blob/a1d064ceb09d39bb28deb6972bc0a278756ea91f/guarddog/scanners/package_scanner.py#L ExploitThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/37c7d0767ba28f4df46117d478f97652594c491c PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-78m5-jpmf-ch7v ExploitThird Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2022-23530), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.