# CVE-2026-22871: GuardDog Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Overwrite and RCE

> CVE-2026-22871: GuardDog Path Traversal Vulnerability Leads to Arbitrary File Overwrite and RCE. CVSS 9.8 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-22871
Last updated: 2026-06-17T10:20:32Z

- Published: 2026-01-13 20:46 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 10:20 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 9.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Critical · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 1.1%, 64th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-22

## Description

GuardDog is a CLI tool to identify malicious PyPI packages. Prior to 2.7.1, there is a path traversal vulnerability exists in GuardDog's safe\_extract() function that allows malicious PyPI packages to write arbitrary files outside the intended extraction directory, leading to Arbitrary File Overwrite and Remote Code Execution on systems running GuardDog. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.7.1.

## Affected vendors and products

- DataDog: guarddog

## Tracked companies

- [Datadog](https://rewindex.com/company/datadog.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-22871)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-22871)
- [https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/9aa6a725b2c71d537d3c18d1c15621395ebb879c](https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/commit/9aa6a725b2c71d537d3c18d1c15621395ebb879c)
- [https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-xg9w-vg3g-6m68](https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-xg9w-vg3g-6m68)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-22871 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-22871.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-22871 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:50:56.975Z