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SCA: security update for guarddog (GHSA-ffj4-jq7m-9g6v)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436733

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, GuardDog's safe_extract()
 function does not validate decompressed file sizes when extracting ZIP archives (wheels, eggs), allowing
 attackers to cause denial of service through zip bombs. A malicious package can consume gigabytes of disk
 space from a few megabytes of compressed data. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.1. (CVE-2026-22870)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ffj4-jq7m-9g6v

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 436733

Version: Revision 1.6

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-22870

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Threat Score: 5.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-22870

cwe: CWE-409