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SCA: security update for guarddog (GHSA-xg9w-vg3g-6m68)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436732

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2026-22871)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-xg9w-vg3g-6m68

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436732

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 6/3/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-22871

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.3

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-22871

cwe: CWE-22