CVE-2026-44972 PUBLISHED

GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content

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 2.6.0 to 2.9.0, GuardDog includes attacker-controlled filenames, file locations, messages, and code snippets in its default human-readable output without escaping terminal control characters. A malicious package can therefore inject ANSI or OSC escape sequences into analyst terminals or CI logs.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 5

Product Status

Vendor DataDog
Product guarddog
Versions
  • Version >= 2.6.0, <= 2.9.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output CWE