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Low severityNVD Advisory· Published Dec 16, 2022· Updated Apr 17, 2025

Arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted local PyPI package

CVE-2022-23531

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.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
guarddogPyPI
< 0.1.50.1.5

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