# CVE-2026-44972: GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content

> CVE-2026-44972: GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content. CVSS 5.0 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-44972
Last updated: 2026-06-17T10:51:33Z

- Published: 2026-05-27 14:42 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 10:51 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 5.0 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.11%, 1th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-116

## Description

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.

## 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-2026-44972)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-44972)
- [https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-m5p4-gvpx-4mvr](https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-m5p4-gvpx-4mvr)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-44972 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-44972.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-44972 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:09:01.386Z