Path Traversal in Datadog Guarddog

CVE-2022-23531

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.

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CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (51.5th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 51.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2022-23531: held from 0.007 to 0.007.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: +0.000

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Weakness classification (CWE)

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Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-23531?
CVE-2022-23531 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Datadog Guarddog, classified under Relative Path Traversal. CVSS score: 5.8/10. Published 2022-12-17.
How severe is CVE-2022-23531?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.8 out of 10.