Path traversal

2022-12-1700:15:00

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guarddog

path traversal

pypi

vulnerability

patched

nvd

7.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

26.6%

JSON

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to 0.1.5 are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal when scanning a specially-crafted local PyPI package. Running GuardDog against a specially-crafted package can allow an attacker to write an arbitrary file on the machine where GuardDog is executed due to a path traversal vulnerability when extracting the .tar.gz file of the package being scanned, which exists by design in the tarfile.TarFile.extractall function. This issue is patched in version 0.1.5.