CVE-2022-23530CWE-22

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

Medium · published December 16, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
54.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Versions prior to v0.1.8 are vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package. Extracting files using shutil.unpack_archive() from a potentially malicious tarball without validating that the destination file path is within the intended destination directory can cause files outside the destination directory to be overwritten. This issue is patched in version 0.1.8. Potential workarounds include using a safer module, like zipfile, and validating the location of the extracted files and discarding those with malicious paths.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00751 · 54.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Published
2022-12-16T22:56Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 DEC 22:56Z
    GuardDog vulnerable to arbitrary file write when scanning a specially-crafted remote PyPI package
    cvelistv5