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CVE-2026-44972: GuardDog: Unsanitized human-readable scan output allows terminal escape injection from malicious package content
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-05-27 · updated 2026-10-26
- Weakness: 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 products
- DataDog guarddog: from 2.6.0, <= 2.9.0
References
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