CVE-2026-22871 - GuardDog Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Overwrite and RCE - Guide

CVE ID : CVE-2026-22871 Published : Jan. 13, 2026, 8:46 p.m. | 36 minutes ago Description : GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Prior to 2.7.1, there is a path traversal vulnerability exists in GuardDog's safe_extract() function that allows malicious PyPI packages to write arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory, leading to Arbitrary File Overwrite and Remote Code Execution on systems running GuardDog. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.1. Severity: 0.0 | NA Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more...

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