GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package

Summary Unsafe extracting using shutil.unpackarchive from a remotely retrieved tarball may lead to writing the extracted file to an unintended destination. Details Extracting files using shutil.unpackarchive from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is...

GHSA-78M5-JPMF-CH7V GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package

Summary Unsafe extracting using shutil.unpackarchive from a remotely retrieved tarball may lead to writing the extracted file to an unintended destination. Details Extracting files using shutil.unpackarchive from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is...

PT-2022-16056 · Guarddog · Guarddog

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GuardDog versions prior to v0.1.8 Description: GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. The issue arises when extracting files using shutil.unpack archive from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the...

GHSA-RP2V-V467-Q9VQ GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted PyPI package

Impact Running GuardDog against a specially-crafted package can allow an attacker to write an arbitrary file on the machine where GuardDog is executed. This is due to a path traversal vulnerability when extracting the .tar.gz file of the package being scanned, which exists by design in the...

GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted PyPI package

Impact Running GuardDog against a specially-crafted package can allow an attacker to write an arbitrary file on the machine where GuardDog is executed. This is due to a path traversal vulnerability when extracting the .tar.gz file of the package being scanned, which exists by design in the...

PT-2022-16057 · Python +1 · Tarfile.Tarfile +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GuardDog versions prior to 0.1.5 Description: The issue allows 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 scanne...