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Vulnerability record · CVE-2022-23531 · published 17 December 2022

CVE-2022-23531: Datadoghq guarddog relative path traversal vulnerability

Datadoghq · Guarddog

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.

7.8 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.71% · top 48.5% CWE-23 · Relative path traversalCWE-22 · Path traversal
7.8CVSS 3.1 base score
0.71%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
6References
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

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

Affected products

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

References

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https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/pull/89/commits/a56aff58264cb6b7855d71b00dc10c39a5dbd306 PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/releases/tag/v0.1.5 Release NotesThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vq Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/pull/89/commits/a56aff58264cb6b7855d71b00dc10c39a5dbd306 PatchThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/releases/tag/v0.1.5 Release NotesThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vq Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2022-23531), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.