Vulnerability in Datadog Guarddog

CVE-2026-22870

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Prior to 2.7.1, GuardDog's safe_extract() function does not validate decompressed file sizes when extracting ZIP archives (wheels, eggs), allowing attackers to cause denial of ser…

EPSS: 0.001 (15.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Datadog Guarddog — versions < 2.7.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-409 — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

References

https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-ffj4-jq7m-9g6v (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/c3fb07b4838945f42497e78b7a02bcfb1e63969b (x_refsource_MISC)