CVE-2022-23531

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Published 2022-12-02 · Modified 2026-02-22

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	guarddog	`<0.1.5`	`0.1.5`
PyPI	guarddog	`<a56aff58264cb6b7855d71b00dc10c39a5dbd306\|\|<0.1.5`	`a56aff58264cb6b7855d71b00dc10c39a5dbd306`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.