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

January 13, 2026

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.

CWE: CWE-22 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory)

References

github.com/DataDog/guarddog
github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/9aa6a725b2c71d537d3c18d1c15621395ebb879c
github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-xg9w-vg3g-6m68
github.com/advisories/GHSA-xg9w-vg3g-6m68
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22871

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