CVE-2022-23531

Advisory

GuardDog versions before 0.1.5 are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal when scanning a specially-crafted local PyPI package. Running GuardDog against a specially-crafted package can allow an attacker to write an arbitrary file on the machine where GuardDog is executed due to a path traversal vulnerability when extracting the .tar.gz file of the package being scanned, which exists by design in the tarfile.TarFile.extractall function.

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Resources

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vq
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23531
• https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/security/advisories/GHSA-rp2v-v467-q9vq
• https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/pull/89/commits/a56aff58264cb6b7855d71b00dc10c39a5dbd306
• https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog
• https://github.com/DataDog/guarddog/releases/tag/v0.1.5
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-23531