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CVE-2022-23530GHSA-78M5-JPMF-CH7VPYSEC-2022-42993

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

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 0.1.8
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: poc
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • DataDog guarddog

    fixed in 0.1.8

  • guarddogPyPI

    fixed in 0.1.8

References 3

GitHub · DataDog/guarddog