CVE-2026-22871: Datadoghq Guarddog

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Datadoghq Guarddog: before 2.7.1 (fixed in 2.7.1)

Published 2026-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.