CVE-2026-44972CWE-116

GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content

Medium · published May 27, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.0
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. From 2.6.0 to 2.9.0, GuardDog includes attacker-controlled filenames, file locations, messages, and code snippets in its default human-readable output without escaping terminal control characters. A malicious package can therefore inject ANSI or OSC escape sequences into analyst terminals or CI logs.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.0 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00150 · 3.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-116 · Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Published
2026-05-27T14:42Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAY 14:42Z
    GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content
    cvelistv5