CVE-2026-44971 PUBLISHED

GuardDog: Blind GitHub URL rewrite in remote project scanning causes SSRF and `GH_TOKEN` exfiltration

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 08.05.2026 Published: 27.05.2026 Updated: 27.05.2026

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. From 1.0.0 to 2.9.0, the programmatic remote project scanning path rewrites attacker-controlled repository URLs using a blind string replacement and then sends the caller's GitHub credentials with the resulting request. This allows an attacker who can influence the scanned repository URL to trigger SSRF and capture the GH_TOKEN used by GuardDog. This vulnerability is fixed in .

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor DataDog
Product guarddog
Versions
  • Version >= 1.0.0, <= 2.9.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-918: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CWE