CVE-2026-44972
GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.0 Medium
- Published
- May 27, 2026
- Updated
- May 27, 2026
- Reserved
- May 8, 2026
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.0 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
guarddogDataDog |
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References
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